Sublime

the particularities of an individual’s life are linked to the much larger social forces that shape it.

the majority straddle insider and outsider status, combining some links to the elites with links to the communities in need of social action.

Looking back through history, radical social imagination has always entailed some kind of shift in consciousness, and some progress to more ethical, richer, deeper and broader ways of thinking and feeling.

Unequal capacities to dream, imagine and shape arguably constitute a deeper inequality than present material inequalities, a deeper constraint on freedom because of their dynamic effects.

The most influential ideas tend to be quite simple: generative concepts that can spark multiple interpretations and adaptations.

Throughout my career, I’ve learned that with the right mix of determination, focus and patience, change is possible. World-weary realism often turns out to be extraordinarily unrealistic.

The aim of all of these was to shift the culture so that citizens felt a shared responsibility for their city, while expanding their sense of what might be possible after a long period of depressed fatalism.

These imaginaries of the future state have at their heart a transformed view of government intelligence, seeing the state as a kind of brain that shares intelligence with society rather than only wielding it as a tool against society or against enemies.

Joseph Beuys and led to his concept of social sculpture.