Imagination: A Manifesto is a proposal for exorcising our mental and social structures from the tyranny of dominant imaginaries. It is a field guide for seeding an imagination grounded in solidarity, in which our underlying interdependence as a species and with the rest of the planet is

radical imagination can inspire us to push beyond the constraints of what we think, and are told, is politically possible.

the retreat into genetic and historical absolutes implies there is no use trying to write new stories. But I cannot abide that kind of intellectual fatalism, nor can most people who experience the deadly consequence of those Old Stories.

poetic knowledge—“that imagination, that effort to see the future in the present.”

disregard for “premodern” peoples and their inventions is precisely why we face a planetary crisis,

Here we see how a white masculine imagination flattens social reality. Equal Opportunity Offense is the prime directive, and durable hierarchies are figments of others’ imagination.

the spiked bench—designed by German artist Fabian Brunsing—which required payment before the spikes would retract into the bench’s surface. The latter’s design invites us to think critically about the metering of social life, where only those who can pay are allowed to rest (or play). The spiked bench also highlights the eugenic imagination and all

Moving forward, then, requires remembering who we are.

There exists a multibillion-dollar Soft Power (Dream) Industry, which is in the business of crafting and selling powerful myths that lull us into various states of zombielike consumerism—swiping, subscribing, and submitting to its narrow vision of belonging.