Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life – Stevphen Shukaitis

Softback

258 pages

Minor Compositions

ISBN: 9781570272080

All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding of this self-institutionalizing process. But what exactly is radical imagination? Drawing from autonomist politics, class composition analysis, and avant-garde arts, Imaginal Machines explores the emergence, functioning, and constant breakdown of the embodied forms of radical imagination.