Destituent Power and Reclaiming the Imagination with Serene Richards

[@aidanknight1574]

31:33 Can you recommend such art of this post-Jungian tradition?

[@LEPHTHAND]

the work of James Hillman and Mary Watkins come to mind

[@jonnymagus18]

Seems to be parallels with poetic imagination, to bust open the possibilities. There are plenty of wild books around the topic, poetry, sorcery, language, ecstatic thinking, colliding. These experiences then have to be somehow ordered by 'reason' into verse. Intriguing that Dante is mentioned, he is certainly within this wild tradition. The Romantic poets rigourously debated the intricacies of the imagination. The young Coleridge, Shelley, Blake etc...

[@jonnymagus18]

Listening at work whilst I'm weeding😂

[@Studio-gt2te]

While this discussion on imagination as a political tool under technocratic capitalism is fascinating, it risks idealizing the role of imagination without sufficiently addressing practical applications. Philosophers like Pierre Léon and Jean-Luc Nancy offer rich theoretical insights, but the concept of 'destituent communism' could benefit from a clearer framework for implementation. Additionally, the critique of globalization, though valid, lacks nuance in exploring how technology might empower rather than solely constrain collective imagination. Overall, a thought-provoking but somewhat abstract take on modern political philosophy.

[@LEPHTHAND]

agreed, but in fairness the purpose here was to constrain the discussion to the imaginal dimension of biopolitics and how the imagination is largely foreclosed upon by images which reconstitute constituent power.

[@LEPHTHAND]

one thing Serene mentions, which I believe is true, raises the stakes of this conversation: that a lot of energy is dumped into maintaining the abstractions and the symbolic order of the status quo. it's an important plane of contestation. part of the contest is to unsettle the metaphysics that pins it all down.