Progressive speculation must embrace contingency without replicating finance’s violence

Evidence

Orienting our speculative imaginations toward a more progressive and equitable politics can happen only through recognizing the irreducible contingency of the present moment in ways that embrace its darkness, but without reproducing the exclusionary violence of speculative finance. For Castoriadis, doing so is bound up with the project of taking ownership of our communal indeterminacy by giving a form to chaos and “a meaning to the incongruences of life,” or, to paraphrase David Harvey, with taking “a speculative plunge” into our own collective unknown. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 44

Categorization

• XREF: Castoriadis on giving form to chaos and Harvey’s ‘speculative plunge’ — useful anchors for the reader’s assessment of what a left counter-speculation could concretely mean. — connects to: Finance’s utopian promises contain the seed of their own subversion; Everyday people can counter finance using small doses of its own speculative logic — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 541