Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou is the author of Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (University of Chicago Press, 2022). He is Associate Professor of Sociology at the UCL Social Research Institute, where he leads the Sociology & Social Theory Research Group. His current book project, tentatively titled Real Fake, is an intellectual history of distortion and capitalist myth-making.

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world’s influence on the social imagination, unravelling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.


“A masterful critique of the financialisation of everyday life. 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

Featured events

 

Tuesday 7 December
12:30 –14:00

London School of Economics
Sociology Department

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Monday 17 January
19:00 – 20:00

London Review Bookshop
UK book launch

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Wednesday 26 January
11:00 – 12:15 EST

The New School, NY
US book launch

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Tuesday 22 February

University of Essex
Sociology Department

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Friday 11 March

Rutgers University, NJ
Center for Cultural Analysis

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Wednesday 8 June

Max Planck Institute, DE
Invited Public Lecture

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