Speculative technologies train a present-focused disbelief in capitalism’s future promises

Evidence

I claim that such technologies nurse a speculative mode of being “in the present,” a disbelief in capitalism’s future promises, and an invitation of the unknown into all aspects of life. I thus offer a corrective to dominant theories of surveillance capitalism and “digital governmentality,” arguing that their neglect of the complex, speculative sociality undergirding such technologies is a significant blind spot. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 36

Categorization

• DEFINE: Argues against surveillance-capitalism and digital-governmentality theories for missing the speculative sociality beneath these technologies.
• XREF: connects to: Accepting a failed promise binds investors into collective mythic futures — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 96