Description
Book SynopsisSpeculative Communities investigates the financial world’s influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.
Trade Review"Speculative Communities is a masterful critique of the financialisastion of everyday life, which provides an innovative account of the role of speculation and uncertainty in shaping the way we understand, and act within, the world. Komporozos-Athanasiou masterfully blends economic theory with political and sociological analysis to deliver a fascinating reading of how finance has colonised our imaginations, and the challenges this process poses to movements seeking to construct a collective sense of what life beyond capitalism might look like. Speculative Communities is both a novel and exciting academic contribution, and a critical reference point for those seeking to organise in a world defined by the logic of speculation."--Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation
Table of ContentsKey Terms
Introduction
Part 1: Speculation: Finance and Capitalism
1. The Rise of Speculative Communities
2. A Genealogy of Speculative Imagination: Old Spirits of Capitalism
Part 2: Spectacle: Finance and Society
3. Speculative Technologies and the New Homo speculans
4. Speculative Intimacies
Part 3: Specter: Finance and Polity
5. Financialized Populism and New Nationalisms
6. Counter-speculations
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
