Social bonds now form around shared volatility and precarity

Evidence

Speculative communities: imagined collectivities that are constituted in the ebbs and flows of the speculative imagination. Their social bonds are defined by a speculative engagement with the future and a connection with others on the basis of shared experiences of volatility and precarity. Speculative communities are based on a collective, mutual recognition of contemporary society’s fragility in the face of radical uncertainties across all spheres of life. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 11

Speculative communities: imagined collectivities that are constituted in the ebbs and flows of the speculative imagination. Their social bonds are defined by a speculative engagement with the future and a connection with others on the basis of shared experiences of volatility and precarity. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 26

Categorization

• DEFINE: The fourth pillar term — communities constituted not by shared place or identity but by shared volatility.
• XREF: Recall Benedict Anderson’s ‘imagined communities’ — this is explicitly a financialized successor concept. — connects to: The temporary contract is supplanting permanent institutions across social life — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 458; Regressive populism and speculative finance are forming new alliances. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 57; Financialization drives the rise of precarious labor and dissolves social bonds — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 141 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 11; Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 26