for those who need a gateway to radical imagination

The technology is not what matters. Words are what matter. The sharing of words. The activation of imagination through the reading of words.

As historian Robin D. G. Kelley asks, “Even if we could gather together our dreams of a new world, how do we figure them out in a culture dominated by the marketplace?”

Rather than serving as engines of inequality, could we imagine schools that incubate a better world in the minds and hearts of young people? For many, the idea that we can defy politics as usual and channel human ingenuity toward more egalitarian forms of social organization is utterly far-fetched! Instead, our collective imagination tends to shrin

What will be the fate of reading? I don’t mean the left-to-right movement of the eyes as we take in information, but the age-old practice of addressing the world by way of this inward faculty of imagination. I mean reading as a filtering of the complexities of the real through artistic narrative, reflection, and orchestration of verbal imagery.