Marx and Weber both outlined this new speculative subject through contradictions

Evidence

Both Marx and Weber, then, begin to offer tentative outlines of homo speculans, the rising hegemonic subject of early finance capitalism, by bringing its inherent contradictions into sharp focus: for Marx the core tension embodied in the abstracting forces of speculation was between fictitious (unreal) and material (real) values, while for Weber the defining conflict was that between the rationality and irrationality of speculative endeavors. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 146

Categorization

• DEFINE: First formal definition of homo speculans — the reader’s core concept.
• XREF: connects to: Marx and Weber framed speculation’s contradictions but ignored imagination’s role in capitalism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 228; Marx and Weber avoided theorizing imagination because they rejected Romantic liberalism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 229
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marx and Weber framed speculation’s contradictions but ignored imagination’s role in capitalism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 228; Marx and Weber avoided theorizing imagination because they rejected Romantic liberalism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 229