Speculative communities give collective form to chaos by digging their own labyrinths

Evidence

Instead, we must engage the recondite fictions of our time with the same resolve as if we were entering a labyrinth. Faced with repeated crossroads, we cannot know in advance whether they will lead us to an exit, but that does not mean we wander in vain. The labyrinth’s pathways may be puzzling, but they are the outcome of our own digging; their twists and turns are not the whims of “a trickster,” to use Teju Cole’s words. By digging the proverbial labyrinth, speculative communities give form to chaos and create a world that allows them to endure collectively the vicissitudes of financialized everyday life. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 365

Categorization

• DEFINE: The labyrinth metaphor is the most concrete articulation in the conclusion of what a ‘speculative community’ actually does — gives form to chaos through shared digging rather than escaping it.
• XREF: connects to: Communities endure financialized life’s chaos by building shared fictions — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 563; Cultic self-gathering makes the move to pure speculative thought possible