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 University College London, where he leads the Sociology & Social Theory Research Group, and he serves on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Sociology. His current book project, tentatively titled Real Fake, is an intellectual history of distortion 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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Read a review of the book, listen to my interview in Tribune Magazine, or watch a video from the launch event at the LRB Bookshop.
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 DALL·E 2 OpenAI software ]
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