The speculative pause before a match can open alternative futures
Evidence
But is dwelling in the speculative, never-ending moment of the swipe all we can hope for? Or could there be a silver lining in the rituals of the short-lived experiences of mobile dating apps? Tinder’s infinite swipe is unswervingly repetitive but not entirely without respite. Swipes will, in most cases, eventually bring matches, which will gratify our anxious quests for affirmation yet also make us pause. Our experience of such a pause will be shaped by the speculative imagination rather than by a deliberative (un)choice and, as such, it may also open a doorway into alternative possibilities of inhabiting the unknown. It is therefore the political implications of homo speculans that we must now explore in more detail. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 239
Categorization
- QUESTION: This is the hinge to the counter-speculations thesis — whether the pause genuinely opens political possibilities or is absorbed by the app’s design.
- XREF: connects to: Speculative imagination generates collective futures under incalculable uncertainty; Time preferences beyond uniform discount rates let players alter the game by delaying — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 613; Contingent events are non-random yet depend on aberrant chance conditions — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4266
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Speculative imagination generates collective futures under incalculable uncertainty; Time preferences beyond uniform discount rates let players alter the game by delaying — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 613; Contingent events are non-random yet depend on aberrant chance conditions — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4266
Broader Connections
- Contingent events are non-random yet depend on aberrant chance conditions
#complicates(0.71) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4266