Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
In his book Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, Stephen Duncombe wrote that ‘unless progressives acknowledge and accept a politics of imagination, desire and spectacle, and most important, make it ethical and make it our own, we will bring about our “ruin rather than preservation”.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
A lot of people are dismayed by the erosion of civil discourse, are impatient with the obsolete promises of politicians and activists, are eager to make sense of our desperate situation, and are looking for ways to sustain some kind of hope.
Jonathan Franzen • What If We Stopped Pretending?
frame the looming catastrophes on our doorstep as a collective call to adventure, an invitation to rediscover one another and in the process cultivate whole new ways of being.
Joe Lightfoot • A Collective Blooming: The Rise Of The Mutual Aid Community
An extraordinary imaginative power to reinvent ourselves is at large in the world, though it is hard to say how it will counteract the dead weight of neoliberalism, fundamentalisms, environmental destructions, and well-marketed mindlessness.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
What would it look like if we put the same energy and inspiration that currently goes into telling ourselves we’re Consumers, into building our agency as Citizens?