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Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility
imagination is a form of social practice, not an individual fantasy. It is embedded in everyday life and shaped by flows of media, migration and political economy. Similarly, Pierre Bourdieu showed how the habitus—our embodied disposition shaped by social class and history—influences what we perceive as possible or impossible. Imagination is not fr... See more
Practical imagination
magic is not so much a technical skill as a mode of thinking
Philip Ball • Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions
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“Imagination doesn’t erase nightmares,” says author Imani Perry, “but it can repurpose them with an elaborate sense-making or troublemaking.” And, if imagination can lead to troublemaking, is it any wonder, then, that those in power work tirelessly to squash us from having radical imaginations that dare to envision a world in which everyone can thr
... See moreRuha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
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
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