Speculative communities arise from the collapse of the TINA doctrine.

Evidence

As new speculative communities emerge out of the invincible There Is No Alternative doctrine (so deeply cemented in the political horizon of financialized neoliberalism), the challenge ahead of us is learning to occupy this new unmapped territory of “everything is possible.” Can we both expose the nefarious forces of exclusionary and dogmatic ignorance and find ways to retain our trust in a shared reality or, better yet, acknowledge that such a shared reality contains myths of our own making? — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 526

Categorization

• QUESTION: The closing question — retaining trust in a shared reality that is partly myth — is worth holding onto for how it reframes the crisis-of-truth debate.
• XREF: connects to: Speculative communities arise from the tension between financial imagination and neoliberal reason — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 31; Post-2008 radical uncertainty cleared the way for speculative communities to coalesce — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 96

Broader Connections

• Post-2008 radical uncertainty cleared the way for speculative communities to coalesce #corroborates (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 96
• Speculative communities arise from the tension between financial imagination and neoliberal reason #qualifies (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 31