Popular digital media constitute technologies of speculation binding economic and intimate life

Evidence

My claim is that such popular and commodified media constitute technologies of speculation: they are nourished by speculative imaginations and, at the same time, they spread them like wildfire. Importantly, speculative technologies form part of an interconnected system that binds economic, social, and even intimate spaces together—and, in doing so, they animate finance capitalism in ways that have not yet been fully understood. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 176

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces and defines ‘technologies of speculation’ — a core concept for the homo speculans thesis the reader is tracking.
• XREF: Builds directly on the reader’s stated interest: this explains how speculation migrates from trading floors into everyday life via media. — connects to: Finance and everyday social life are converging through speculative technologies — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 327