Speculative technologies are both mediators and expressions of the finance-society relationship
Evidence
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. Today’s technological opacity tills the soil on which collective speculation grows. Our contemporary speculative endeavors are attempts to foresee the future—not only in the sense of anticipating its uncertain outcomes but also in the sense of navigating our clouded and increasingly obscured reality. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 163
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines ‘speculative technologies’ as the core concept for Part II: not merely mediators but new expressions of the finance-society relationship.
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