Speculative finance and nationalist populism form a global pact
Evidence
Correspondingly, much of my discussion takes the United States and the United Kingdom as its main geographical focus. However, the emergence of speculative communities speaks to a broader set of recent social and political developments around the world—most salient among them the pact between speculative finance and nationalist neopopulism in major economies of both the Global North and the Global South and the global proliferation of speculative technologies in everyday life (as demonstrated by the meteoric rise of digital apps like TikTok, Instagram, and Tinder throughout non-Western contexts). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 383
Categorization
- XREF: This directly feeds the reader’s task of tracing how finance trains everyday platforms from Tinder to TikTok. — connects to: Both markets and nationalism are assumed to crave stability, not volatility — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 65; Insuring, hedging and reassuring constitute the shared speculative practice of finance and populism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 270; Populist nationalism and speculative betting on uncertainty reinforce each other mutually — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 293 (+8 more)
- ADDENDUM: The dating-app thread connects to the reader’s core interest in speculation migrating into dating.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Both markets and nationalism are assumed to crave stability, not volatility — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 65; Insuring, hedging and reassuring constitute the shared speculative practice of finance and populism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 270; Populist nationalism and speculative betting on uncertainty reinforce each other mutually — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 293 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Populist nationalism and speculative betting on uncertainty reinforce each other mutually
#corroborates(0.95) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 293 - Regressive populism and speculative finance are forming new alliances.
#corroborates(0.95) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 57 - Populist discourse welds nativism onto speculative finance through a govern-by-chaos doctrine
#expands(0.92) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 251