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Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
when we work to cultivate a collective vision for transforming the world, we must be careful not to fetishize imagination as somehow operating magically and independently from other powerful ingredients, like strategizing and organizing, to make our vision a reality.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
While we know that our imaginations shape our sociocultural experience through the creation of worlds, modernity thrives by throwing tight constraints around it, degenerating our ability and capacity to imagine radically new futures into being. This ontological war against possibility is ‘defuturing’ — there are less futures available to us; or put... See more
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
transition imaginaries are concerned not only with restructuring the world out there but with transforming the worlds in here—our identities, our psyches, our spirits.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
If the future really does belong to those who think about it (and we believe it does), then we believe that should include more, and we mean way more of the population than it does today. We’re not talking about individual daydreaming or even about creating new pathways into the same old industries. Rather, we’re talking about engaging the collecti... See more