Speculation and insurance jointly define community boundaries that ignore traditional class lines.

Evidence

Imagined in this state of flux, speculative communities are fluid social constellations that do not always cluster along traditional lines of class. Their boundaries are defined more tentatively by the twin practices of speculation and insurance, which set in motion an open-­ended dialectic between real and imagined futures. This dialectic undergirds the contradictory collective wagers of today’s politics— whether the swelling currents of evangelical populism and the rising “fake news” conspiracies or the abstruse gossip of online meme culture and the sabotage practices of fandom communities. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 555

Categorization

• XREF: Ties the finance/speculation mechanism directly to contemporary populism and meme culture — bridges the reader’s finance interest to social-imagination themes. — connects to: Insurance historically functions as collective imagined solidarity, not individual self-interest. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 273; Speculative social insurance bonds by excluding marginalized groups, not redistributing. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 296; Risk society theory omits the collective speculation structures that forge political identifications. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 319

Broader Connections

• Insurance historically functions as collective imagined solidarity, not individual self-interest. #corroborates (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 273
• Speculative social insurance bonds by excluding marginalized groups, not redistributing. #qualifies (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 296
• Risk society theory omits the collective speculation structures that forge political identifications. #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 319