Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Author at Public Seminar

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Speculating on Chaos in Financialized Capitalism

Speculations, Spectacles, Spectres

May 30, 2019 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Across the channel, during the upheaval caused by the gilets jaunes movement, media and government have condemned protestors’ actions for the continuing chaos they have brought upon France’s city centers. Back in autumn, some weeks before the eruption of the gilet jaunes protests, President Macron used his Armistice Speech to focus on the ...

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2018 Arendt-Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy

An announcement

April 12, 2018 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

The editors of the Imaginal Politics vertical at Public Seminar are excited to announce their partnership with the organizers of the 2018 Arendt-Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research. This year’s Symposium, entitled “Philosophy and Coloniality” represents an overdue focus on the ways ...

2018 Arendt-Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy

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The Radical Imagination

Imagining the future in financial capitalism

June 2, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici

Architectural fantasy stimulates the architect’s activity, it arouses creative thought not only for the artist but it also educates and arouses all those who come in contact with him; it produces new directions, new quests, and opens new horizons. Iakov Chernikhov (1933), ‘101 architectural fantasies’ Why the radical imagination? Today more than ...

Utopia

‘Imagining the Future: Financial Capitalism and the Social Imagination’

March 15, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici

Social production of financial futures Fictional expectations in financial markets Economics and science fiction Risk, debt, and futurities Theorizing rationality/irrationality in financial crises Fictitious capital Future presents and present futures Utopian/dystopian sociologies of finance Political economy of sociological imagination(s) Real-estate utopias/dystopias Microcredit and neoliberal imagination Feminist finance and economics ...

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Reclaiming Utopia

Challenging the Financial Imagination

January 16, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

The panel invited provocative reflections from theorists, activists and artists, on the possibilities of reclaiming radical utopias as a response to an increasingly dominant ‘financial imagination’. Set in London, a hub of such financial imagination (imbued with liberal utopian notions of ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’), the panel addressed questions such as: ...

Education

“Reclaiming Utopia”

An Introduction to the Project of Challenging the Financial Imagination

January 3, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Dithering between the naiveté of techno-utopias of a fully-automated post capitalism, and the banal indulgence in bureaucratic ‘utopias of rules’, utopian thinking today seems to offer meagre hope for articulating and enacting radical futures. Meanwhile, in the world of financial markets, a formidable imagined future is being methodically produced. Fictional ...