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
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Upcoming book
Real Fake: An intellectual history of distortion
What is the relationship between magic and finance? How did alchemy become a defining feature of our financialized world? And how does market-driven distortion produce the elusive realities, cosmologies and conspiracies of modern capitalism?
[ Image of ‘financial alchemy’ generated by Aris K-A through Open AI ]
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Aris on Twitter
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This discussion @transmediale last February was one of the most enjoyable I've had since the publication of specula… https://t.co/lkCZNzg80G -
RT @alirizataskale: How does fiction engage with the form of the financialized economy? How does it enable us to counter the way twenty… https://t.co/L6RLX5xH3T
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this looks 💥💥💥 https://t.co/03fnMHxXtz
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RT @jamesbridle: These paras from WAYS OF BEING seem somewhat relevant this week. (available in paperback now! Etc) https://t.co/9H7jbQtgZZ
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"If we want such creativity to persist, we should also be funding the production of art, fiction and history – not… https://t.co/ZhboOGJUmO
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RT @psyche_the_mag: Everybody knows we live in an age of misinformation. But everybody’s wrong, and it’s our age’s biggest problem… https://t.co/vKM4tUG1NH
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RT @ChrisHarker: For those interested in this post, you would also be joining a large community of scholars across @ucl who are inte… https://t.co/RchqlRdoHN
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RT @_AmyHorton: Job opportunity @UCLgeography Lecturer in Economic Geography https://t.co/xLs2qm26Am
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RT @ariskomporozos: So happy to chair a discussion on Marina Vishmidt's fantastic new @mitpress book on Speculation @_TheWhitechapel Ga… https://t.co/bZNlWjC0Rs