Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou is the author of Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (University of Chicago Press, 2022). He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at University College London, Director of the BSc Sociology Programme and Head of the Sociology & Social Theory Research Group. He serves on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Sociology. Currently, he is working on his second book project — an intellectual history of distortion and ‘fakeness’ in finance capitalism.

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

Read a review of the book in Bookforum, listen to my interview in Tribune Magazine, or watch a video from the launch event at the LRB Bookshop.

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Featured past events

 

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 Strand Bookstore, NYC
US book launch

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Wednesday 11 May
19:00 – 21:00 CET

Ark Books, Copenhagen
Denmark book launch

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Wednesday 8 June
17:00 – 18:30 CET

Max Planck Institute, Cologne
MPIfG Public Lecture

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Tuesday 5 July
18:00 – 20:00 CET

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Germany book launch

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Wednesday 10 August
20:00 – 21:00 CET

Locarno Film Festival
Invited Public Lecture

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