A World to Win: Speculative Communities w/ Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
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🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Grace talks to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, associate professor of sociology at UCL, about his book Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World. They talk about the formation of a new kind of subject—homo speculans—and how mutual cooperation in the context of the deep and pervasive uncertainty that characterizes life under financial capitalism is building new communities and new forms of resistance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a world to win a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely |
| 0:16.7 | bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news theory and action from around the world. |
| 0:21.6 | This week I talked to Aris Comparosos Athanasio, Associate Professor of Sociology at UCL about |
| 0:28.2 | his book speculative communities living with uncertainty in a financialised world. We talk about |
| 0:34.0 | the formation of a new kind of subject, homo speculance, and how mutual cooperation in the context |
| 0:40.0 | of deep and pervasive uncertainty that characterises life under financial capitalism is building new |
| 0:45.5 | communities and new forms of resistance to financialisation. Thanks as always to our amazing |
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| 1:18.3 | World as our intro and outro music. And now here is Aris Comparosos Athanasio on his book speculative |
| 1:25.3 | communities. Hello and welcome to this episode of a world to win. I am joined today by |
| 1:36.7 | Aris Comparosos Athanasio. Did I get that right? Perfect yes. Great to talk about his forthcoming |
| 1:43.4 | book speculative communities. How are you doing today, Aris? I'm very well. Thank you, Grace. |
| 1:49.6 | Good. Well, let's just jump straight in then and can you just tell us what exactly speculation |
| 1:55.5 | is and how it differs from investment in general? Yes, I think it's a very important question to |
| 2:03.7 | start with. So, yes, speculation, we usually distinguish between investment and speculation. |
| 2:10.5 | And so the connotations of speculation tend to be more negative and those of investment more |
| 2:17.6 | positive. So, the Oxford dictionary of finance and banking, for instance, distinguishes speculation |
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