Speculative technologies actively embed speculation into modern society

Evidence

Therefore, my aim in the second part of this book is to demonstrate how the theoretical framework I have developed explains the integration of homo speculans into today’s speculative communities. To this end, I will probe the shifting relationship between society and finance by illuminating the ways new digital commodities spread the speculative imagination in society faster than ever before. What I will frame as speculative technologies are the core of this process, not merely as mediators of a new relationship between society and finance but also as new expressions of that relationship. Speculative technologies, in short, are the very means by which homo speculans becomes embedded in our modern spectacle society. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 252

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the book’s key term ‘speculative technologies’ as both mediators and expressions of the finance-society relationship.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 252
• XREF: connects to: Digital speculation platforms amplify populist mobilization beyond traditional social movements — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 698; Market speculation functions as secular prophecy sustaining public faith in finance — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 227; Speculative technologies are both mediators and expressions of the finance-society relationship (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Speculative technologies are both mediators and expressions of the finance-society relationship #expands (0.85)
• Speculation now pervades economic, social, and political life as an imagined collective enactment #expands (0.82) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 85
• Speculative imagination is a generative social force integrated into everyday capitalist life #complicates (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 74