Imagination precedes and enables the achievement of political transformation

Evidence

I hold to the naive belief that writing can change the world, because what can be imagined can be achieved. This is not to deny the presence of oppression and injustice - quite the opposite. For the power of transformation can emerge only out of the intense desire of the colonized for justice. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3429

Categorization

• SEED: A claim worth building into an essay on the political stakes of speculative fiction and worldbuilding as tools of the colonized.
• XREF: connects to: Imagination and aesthetic practice have direct material consequences. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 698; Aesthetic experience functions as political apprenticeship for future freedom.; Imagination actively creates worlds rather than merely imitating an external reality — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 238 (+3 more)