Imagination and aesthetic practice have direct material consequences.
Evidence
Marx insisted, after all, that what distinguishes the worst of architects from the best of bees is that the architect erects stuctures in the imagination before giving them material form. Changes in the way we imagine, think, plan, and rationalize are bound to have material consequences. Only in these very broad terms of the conjoining of mimesis and aesthetic intervention can the broad range of postmodernism make sense. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 698
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Jameson’s view of postmodernism as cognitive mapping and the Marxian base-superstructure debate this reader is comparing. — connects to: Imagination is social and intersubjective, constituting collectivities — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 154; Imagination precedes and produces reality rather than reflecting it — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 152; Aesthetic practices broker between Being and Becoming. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2043 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Imagination precedes and produces reality rather than reflecting it
#expands(0.82) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 152 - Imagination precedes and enables the achievement of political transformation
#expands(0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3429 - Imagination is social and intersubjective, constituting collectivities
#expands(0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 154 - Aesthetic practices broker between Being and Becoming.
#expands(0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2043