Speculative imagination gives provisional images to future chaos we can live with
Evidence
By contrast, it is the inherently imaginative act of taking “collective ownership” over the future’s indeterminacy, by giving a—however provisional—image to its chaos, with which we can live. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 160
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: The provisional-image formulation captures how speculation gives form to unknowable futures.
Related
- Speculative imagination generates collective futures under incalculable uncertainty (similarity 0.91)
- The speculative imagination keeps the future open to change by collectively owning its indeterminacy (similarity 0.90)
- Uncertainty is a resource enabling political subjectivity, not merely an outcome of finance (similarity 0.85)
- The capacity to imagine under uncertainty is unequally distributed (similarity 0.85)
- A collective speculative imagination shapes how capitalist societies cope with future uncertainty. (similarity 0.83)
- Speculative imagination is willingness to stake on future uncertainty despite scarce resources. (similarity 0.82)
- Speculation re-enchants collectivities by projecting broken promises onto shared futures (similarity 0.82)
- Collective imagination, not individual gamblers, shapes our shared wagers on the future (similarity 0.81)
- Shared uncertain futures are central to how imagined communities bind people together (similarity 0.80)
- Speculation is an imaginative act confronting uncertainty, not mere risk-taking (similarity 0.80)
- Imagination actively creates worlds rather than merely imitating an external reality (similarity 0.80)
- Impatience with capitalism’s future promises makes personal imagination increasingly speculative. (similarity 0.80)
- Imagination functions both as an open-ended process and a fixed outcome (similarity 0.80)
- Speculation fuses fatalistic accumulation desire with risk-taking ingenuity (similarity 0.79)
- Speculative communities embrace uncertainty through strategic unknowing rather than anticipation or control (similarity 0.79)