Questions Regarding Simone's Text

Simone's text articulates how cultures of risk and speculation in post-industrial capitalism inform the infrastructural development of global cities and how these developments influence networks of people within such cities. What implications do these ideas of speculation, temporariness and uncertainty have when thinking about social identity/social categories? Historically useful, primary markers of identity and allegiance are becoming less tangible. What kinds of questions should we be asking to account for these new uncertainties?