Romantic bonds are now formed as transactable speculative positions

Evidence

Speculative intimacies: the transient type of romantic and intimate bonds formed in the age of speculative communities. Mediated by image-based and location-aware mobile dating apps such as Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge, speculative intimacies reflect the shifting, ephemeral, and uncertain desires of homo speculans. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 13

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows the migration of speculation from trading into the dating domain — one of the reader’s four target realms.
• XREF: The dating-app parallel to speculative trading positions supports the reader’s core thesis of speculation migrating from trading floors into self-presentation. — connects to: People have become romantic entrepreneurs using love to manage future uncertainty — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 351; Family and marriage bonds have shifted from lifelong to intragenerational and serial — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 331