Today’s speculative imagination is a continuation, not a rupture, with past capitalism.

Evidence

A speculative type of imagination has become especially salient in modern life, but it has been a major force in capitalist economy and society for some time. In this sense, the arrival of today’s speculative communities is far from a rupture with the past. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 110

Categorization

• QUESTION: For the reader’s counter-speculations assessment: if speculative imagination is not novel, does ‘homo speculans’ as a new figure overstate the shift the book claims?
• XREF: connects to: Speculative imagination, not just disciplined capital, drives capitalism forward — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 17; Speculative imagination is a generative social force integrated into everyday capitalist life — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 74; Contemporary culture still relies on an old, inherited image of the future — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2292 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Speculative imagination, not just disciplined capital, drives capitalism forward — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 17; Speculative imagination is a generative social force integrated into everyday capitalist life — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 74; Contemporary culture still relies on an old, inherited image of the future — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2292 (+1 more)