Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics
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...Here, too, fictions (Beckert, 2016), performativity (Holmes, 2014) and pretense (Braun, 2015) play a crucial role....
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...Crucially, however, monetary trust does not follow automatically from this institutional architecture, but is ‘created and maintained through discursive processes that take place among the actors in the field and the general public’ (Beckert, 2016: 129)....
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...Yet instead of working more, the landless laborers chose to work less, satisfied in the maintenance of their existing standard of living (see also Beckert 2016, 25)....
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...It had politics (Haraway 2003; Winner 1980) and futured (capitalist) imaginaries (Beckert 2016) that helped make real certain forms of life over others (Foucault 2003)....
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...A handful of scholars (e.g. Beckert 2016; Bourdieu 1979) have argued that capitalist reproduction is possible only because of a specific theory of fictional expectations: Fictional expectations are ubiquitous and keep the capitalist machine going....
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...Meanwhile, a handful of social theorists have demonstrated sensitivity to the (imagined) future’s causal efficacy on the present, approaching ‘the future’ as effectively a Durkheimian social fact (see e.g. Beckert 2016; Bourdieu 1979; Giddens 1999; Koselleck 2004; Luhmann 1976)....
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...This foundation draws on concepts about cognitive construal (Trope & Liberman, 2010; Berntsen & Bohm, 2010), collective imagination (Mische, 2009; Clarke, 2008, Beckert, 2016), and imaginaries (Anderson, 1991; Castoriadis, 1975; Taylor, 2004)....
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...Drawing on Beckert (2013, 2016), we conceptualize this quality as distant futures taking on an ‘as-if’ reality, which he defines as the “inhabitation in the mind of an imagined future state of the world” (Beckert 2013: 219)....
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...The constant imagination and pursuit of distant futures has been repeatedly identified as a central dynamic of capitalism and in need of more study (Schumpeter, 1934; Beckert, 2016)....
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...1995) and serious (Beckert, 2016) than mere fantasy....
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...…ways of engaging with the future, such as time-discounted rational expectations models (Laverty, 1996; Frederick, Loewenstein & O’Donoghue, 2002; Beckert, 2016) or temporal narratives of continuity between the past and the future (Garud, Schildt & Lant, 2014; Kaplan & Orlikowski, 2013, Tavory…...
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