Speculative politics profits by deliberately generating chaos

Evidence

Speculative politics: the politics of sowing chaos to reap power. A political field dominated by actors who draw on speculative technologies in order to benefit (often electorally) from the present’s volatile, unstable, and disorienting circumstances. Speculative politics often works to actively generate such chaotic conditions in the first place, and to compound existing uncertainties by, for instance, spreading misinformation and conspiracy. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 14

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core to the reader’s ‘financialized populism’ assessment — populists as chaos-entrepreneurs, not just beneficiaries.
• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s trading-floor-to-politics migration thesis; also echoes contemporary scholarship on ‘post-truth’ and manufactured crisis. — connects to: Deliberately induced political chaos consolidates rather than weakens the orchestrator’s power — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 442