Imaginal Politics

Imaginal Politics explores the political role of images, understood as representations that are also presences in themselves. We cover both “imagination” — the radical faculty to question what is given — and the “imaginary”: the social context that shapes our perception of the world.

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Chiara Bottici
Chiara Bottici

Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research.

Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Assistant Professor in Social Theory at the Department of Social Science in University College London.

Judith Butler
Judith Butler

Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

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