Speculative technologies function as the grammar of capitalism’s vernacular imagination

Evidence

Returning to Anderson’s original framing of imagined communities, if, as we have seen, today’s speculative imagination provides capitalism’s new vernacular language, then speculative technologies offer its grammar—forming the skeletal structure of its modern glass house, providing its supporting pillars and rafters. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 177

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algorithm-driven finance prepared the ground for enclosing the early commons-like internet — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 296; An age’s defining technology shapes the consciousness of its writers — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 43; Finance and everyday social life are converging through speculative technologies — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 327 (+13 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Algorithm-driven finance prepared the ground for enclosing the early commons-like internet — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 296; An age’s defining technology shapes the consciousness of its writers — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 43; Finance and everyday social life are converging through speculative technologies — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 327 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Speculative technologies train a present-focused disbelief in capitalism’s future promises #complicates (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 36
• Speculative finance dominates by co-opting the generative worker imagination. #complicates (0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 142