Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou is a sociologist and writer. He is an associate professor at University College London, where he directs the BSc Sociology and leads the Sociology & Social Theory Research Group. Komporozos-Athanasiou is the author of Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (University of Chicago Press, 2022). His second book project, Real Fake: An Intellectual History of Distortion, documents the historical role of market technologies in shaping our collective understandings of reality and truth. His public writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Boston Review, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon, Public Seminar, Roar Magazine, and other publications. He is a co-host of the Conspiracy Games & Counter-Games podcast, and an editor at the British Journal of Sociology.