Speculating on Chaos in the Era of Financialised Populism: En talk og workshop med Prof. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou d.12 april på CBS

Program:

Talk: 10.00 - 12.00, Room: PH16A 2.80

Workshop: 13.00 - 14.30, Room: PH24A 1.68

Date: 12 April 2019

Registration Required
Please Email: befil.mpp@cbs.dk

On the Talk:

The talk will address the recent explosion of political, economic and organisational discourses of chaos – a phenomenon that can be described in sociologicalterms as a ‘radicalisation of uncertainty’. It will discuss the serious implications of a growing global impatience with the future promises of neoliberalism in the aftermath ofthe 2008 crisis. It will be argued, specifically,thatthese developments signal a shiftfrom the risk-taking, entrepreneurial agent ofthe post Bretton-Woods era,to a politically disoriented, speculative subject, who endorses rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty. This leads to a dramatic re-calibration ofthe tension between economy and polity, with new political realignments and conflicts being formed around speculative wagers on political instability and volatility. The talk will propose analysing these transformations through the speculative imagination, a concept which enables us to explain the mounting convergence between ‘markets’ and ‘publics’ in the financialised era. It will conclude with some reflections on the radical possibilities for progressive counter-speculation deployed by contemporary social movements to resist and challenge financialisation.

On the workshop:
Participatory workshop on the concepts of “chaos” and “imagination” which are central in Aris’ talk.