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Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Our assumptions of the future are being challenged: even what we took for granted now seems uncertain. And instead of asking: how did we get here? We are left with the question: what made us think we would never get here? If the unimaginable suddenly becomes a reality, then what is left to imagine? Is it still worth being hopeful? It appears that w
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This condition presents arguably the most pressing crisis of all: an absence of collective imagination. It is as if all humanity has been afflicted by a psychological complex, capitalist realism making us believe the present world is stronger than our capacity to remake it – as if it were not our ancestors who created what stands before us now. As
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Psychoanalyst Joy Schaverien points out that ‘a child who is perpetually vigilant has little space for symbolic play … there is little time for reverie, and the life of the imagination may therefore suffer.’36 Might it be that the more deeply we are immersed in crisis and the more dystopian the future appears, the less able we are to imagine a way
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