Imagination – that ‘ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’ – needs diversity to feed it.

Imagination, we might say, is the invisible circuitry that connects the world out there to our inner worlds. So, we cannot just be critical of oppressive systems without also examining how our own private thoughts and desires reflect and reproduce a dominant imagination that values some lives over others. We must, in a sense, continuously deprogram

Imagination comes alive in its struggles with the reality of the material world and humans with their own purposes, characters and interests. Contrary to the assumption of the Romantics, this kind of imagination always mutates as it becomes actualised, transforming through its interaction with the world of reality, like a chemical forming new compo