Mastodawn

Anarchists, academics, general interested political folks!:
I'm looking for writings on the importance of political imagination for political progress.

I feel like I often come across this kind of thinking in passing in radical literature (e.g. 'even just asking the question about what a world without prisons might look like itself makes it possible'), but I don't know that I know of an essay or book length defense of its importance. Ideas?

#politics #anarchism #leftism #ideology #theory

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J. Nathan Matias 🦣20h ago

@pjw within religious studies, Bruegemann’s The Prophetic Imagination was a manifesto for this.

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pjw

@natematias Thank you! Do you think this work would be relevant to someone not working in the Christian tradition?

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Sara Hendren 19h ago

@pjw @natematias Even the first couple of chapters might be illuminating, in showing the way the prophetic tradition 1)criticizes the regnant order while also 2) energizing a desirable future. That alloyed state is hard to pull off, but so potent when achieved. I would also suggest a book called Living as Form. Artists working on civic and political life, making work between the imaginative and practical with humor, irony, problem-solving.