What is it Possible to Imagine in These Conditions?
Dreaming With Our Eyes Open is a 3 week Pop Up Collective Imagination Practice beginning Monday 30th June, all details here.
"The feminist imagination carves out a site of agency that forms the impetus for action. It has many purposes, but in this regard, it enables resistant acts to take place by dismantling hegemonic notions of what is permissible under current conditions. The imagination is central to the production of revolutionary movements; its primary role is to signal what could be. What could be is a linguistic stand-in for a set of political, social and cultural demands, strategic aims, revolutionary longings. As such, it resists singular definition: It is an unwieldy phenomenon and its currency is chaos. It is an unwieldy phenomenon and its currency is chaos."
~ Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
Where is the space for chaos in your thinking, feeling and being? Or how might the tyranny of 'order' be smothering your experience of this organic, dynamic life?
Don't get me wrong- I know it often feels wonderful to have a general sense of organisation, and in some ways it is an essential survival strategy for psychological wellbeing inside the demands of late stage capitalism.
And also.
How might our socialised preferences for order, predictability & certainty be preventing us from accessing novel ways of being together?
"Mutual learning happens in the entropy; we need the confusion to release the new."
~ Nora Bateson, Small Arc of Larger Circles
What's your relationship with confusion like? I wonder if you might perceive it as something to be resolved as asap as possible, certainly before anyone notices?
How might we collectively be rejecting the very development necessary for shared liveable futures as we cling to visions of ourselves as rational, informed, serious beings?
"The future must enter into you long before it happens."
~Rainer Maria Rilke
You're invited to join me in this endeavour...
Dreaming With Our Eyes Open is a 3 week experience beginning Monday 30th June on The Portal.
Readying. Combining. Noticing.
Over 3 weeks together, we will
Explore how imagination practice relates to liveable futures (and how the systems seek to reclaim it from us)
Enchant one another with expressions of futures we’ve visited
Encode our collective consciousness with possibility
All the details are here. As you probably know, I don't believe in 'business as usual' marketing tekkers like meta ads, or mechanisms that evoke urgency or scarcity. If you think it looks good, please feel my deep appreciation for sharing with kindred beings.
