Speculative politics creates the terrain on which counter-speculative activism operates.

Evidence

Dexterous coding skills were not required. Instead, these activists possessed a deep awareness of the nuanced politics of visibility and invisibility. … Their acts, however, form part of a wider phenomenon—a political weaponization of the volatility inhering in today’s speculative politics. They are counter-speculations: struggles for visibility and obfuscation waged on the turf afforded by speculative technologies. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 306

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s assessment goal: this is the causal link showing how financialized volatility-training translates into a political tactic (rather than merely a voting behavior). — connects to: Contemporary political movements emerge from speculation rather than rational calculation — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 553
• QUESTION: For the reader’s assessment: does ‘struggles waged on the turf afforded by speculative technologies’ amount to a reclamation of the speculative imagination, or does it concede that all agency is now confined to specular tricks?