The protests attacked the state’s start-up nation citizen-investor framing

Evidence

In doing so, the movement also mobilized a speculative politics against the government’s own entrepreneurial imaginary of France as a start-up nation of citizen-investors. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 337

Categorization

• DEFINE: Positions both Macron’s imaginary and the protest movement within the same speculative register — the state trying to train citizens as investors, the protesters counter-speculating against it.