Imagination : a manifesto /
"In this work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future. A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of peopl...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Norton shorts.
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Table of Contents:
- Whose imagination? : "We are in an imagination battle"
- Imagining ourselves : "Nothing has to look or function the way it does"
- Imagining eugenics : "Stop making war on those who have a different imagination"
- Imagining justice : "We must tap the well of our own collective imaginations"
- Imagining the future : " Unless we live with that consciousness, we are going to destroy ourselves"
- Imagination incubator : "Utopias tend to be wrong, but they can be useful in their wrongness".