'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
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hegemonic imagination
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July 31, 2009
In "Time is on Our Side: Rewriting the Space of Imagination" in Situations (Vol 3, No 1 (2009)) Eric J. Weiner states:
The hegemonic imagination’s power to condition our waking dreams, while making a claim to limitless freedom, lays in the celebration of its perceived ability to produce an infinite variety of thoughts, ideas, dreams, and visions. Just as neoliberal discourses position “choice” and “opportunity” as correlates to freedom without examining the social, cultural, and political conditions that a priori regulate (i.e., normalize) the choices that can be made or the opportunities that can be had, imagination is too often conceptualized as the key to possibility, opening an infinite number of doors, all of which promise either (and most often) an escape from reality or a different perspective on it.
Weiner says that because the regulatory process does not determine imagi nation and its output, but rather suggests a field of infinitely structured and structuring structures, Bourdieu’s conception of habitus is a vital, if insufficient concept, in understanding how the process of social imagining takes shape.
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| | Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 6:50 PM | Permalink |
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