The 2008 crisis shows struggles for power are struggles over imagined futures

Evidence

The legacy of the 2008 global financial crisis reverberates in contemporary life, reminding us that capitalism’s glass house is fragile and precarious and that the struggles for power within it are also struggles for imagining the future. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 156

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reader’s finance/prediction-markets focus: power in markets is exercised partly by controlling which futures seem real. — connects to: Power struggles within capitalism are simultaneously struggles over imagining the future; Power’s gravest risk is becoming visibly unable to realize its own possibilities — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 755

Broader Connections

• Power struggles within capitalism are simultaneously struggles over imagining the future #corroborates (1.00)
• Power’s gravest risk is becoming visibly unable to realize its own possibilities #expands (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 755