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Komporozos-Athanasiou, Aris. Speculative communities: living with uncertainty in a financialized world / Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou. — 1 online resource (209 pages). — Description based upon print version of record. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/3028262.pdf>.Record create date: 1/1/2022 Subject: Speculation — Social aspects.; Finance — Social aspects.; Capitalism — Social aspects.; Civilization, Modern; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance.; Capitalism — Social aspects.; Civilization, Modern. Collections: EBSCO Allowed Actions: –
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"In Speculative Communities, Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that financial speculation has moved beyond markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. As ordinary people make exceptional decisions--such as the American election of a populist demagogue or the British vote to leave the European Union--they are moving from time-honored and -tested practices of governance, toward the speculative promise of a different kind of future. Even our methods of building community have shifted to the speculative realm as social media platforms enable and amplify alternative visions of the present and future-these are the "speculative communities" that now shape our personal and political realities. For Komporozos-Athanasiou, "to speculate" means increasingly "to connect," to endorse uncertainty preemptively, and often daringly, as a means of social survival. Finance has thus become the model for society writ large. These financial systems have taken a notable turn in our current era, however. Contemporary capitalism sees the risk-taking, entrepreneurial person being refashioned as a politically disoriented, speculative subject, who embraces the future's radical uncertainty rather than averting it. As Komporozos-Athanasiou shows, virtual marketplaces, new social media, and dating apps function as finance's speculative infrastructures, leading to a new type of imagination across economy and society"--.
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Key Terms
- Introduction
- Part I: Speculation: Finance and Capitalism
- 1: The Rise of Speculative Communities
- 2: A Genealogy of Speculative Imagination: Old Spirits of Capitalism
- Part II: Spectacle: Finance and Society
- 3: Speculative Technologies and the New Homo speculans
- 4: Speculative Intimacies
- Part III: Specter: Finance and Polity
- 5: Financialized Populism and New Nationalisms
- 6: Counter-speculations
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
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