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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.

Seminar Chairs
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.


Imaginal Politics
The Riot in the Rights
January 19, 2021Rose Parfitt
Biopolitics
Against Biopolitics
September 25, 2020Angel Octavio Alvarez Solis, Gonzalo Bustamante Moya
Race
Anti Bodies
September 24, 2020Rossen Ventzislavov
Imaginal Politics
“How is it Going with Being?”
May 20, 2020David Block
Sex & Gender
Anarchafeminist Manifesto 1.0
May 17, 2020*The Ongoing Collective
Sex & Gender
The New York State Fertility Mandate and Compulsory Heterosexuality
May 4, 2020Ellen Yom
Imaginal Politics
We Are Straw Dogs
May 2, 2020Austin Burke
Imaginal Politics
Philosophy, Coloniality and the Politics of Remembrance
February 27, 2020Chiara Bottici
Imaginal Politics
Philosophy, the Greeks, and U.S. Settler-colonialism
February 26, 2020Chiara Bottici
Imaginal Politics
The Peace that Kills
February 13, 2020Antti Tarvainen
Culture
The Art of Change Opera 1.0
January 17, 2020Chiara Bottici
Imaginal Politics
Anarchafeminism
December 2, 2019Chiara Bottici

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