A Hopeful Political Imagination
Courage and Fantastic Critique in the Age of Meltdown
A Hopeful Political Imagination
Courage and Fantastic Critique in the Age of Meltdown
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Bringing political criticism, a variety of theoretical approaches, and the author's concrete experiences together, this book offers a political definition of hope as a utopian signifier, rooted in concrete processes of historical differentiation. Oscar Guardiola-Rivera addresses the problem of current limitations to the exercise of political imagination which severely contain, encrypt, and obscure our vision of social alternatives and normative possibilities? While grounding ethical and political stances on liberation philosophy and the anthropology of visual systems, A Hopeful Political Imagination: Courage and Fantastic Critique in the Age of Meltdown engages in dialogue with theories of encryption, a-legality, and the critique of anthropological absolutism coming from decolonial and ecological approaches. It allows us to understand 'decryption' as reversing encrypting linguistic and spatial processes in modernity, and proposes a new approach called 'fantastic critique' to reinvent the dynamics of power, judgement, time and the imagination, based on historical, literary, and philosophical examples. This book recovers and reimagines principles of hope and courage as republican, ethical virtues of revelation of what is figured and made in movement together, for practical action.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: This Book Is a Gift to Make You Hopeful
Part I: Survivance Stories
Chapter 1. Critique Fantastique
Chapter 2. Investigating Hope
Chapter 3. Why This Book Is (Like) a Detective Story
Part II: The Child
Chapter 4. The Secret
Chapter 5. Stop Making Sense
Chapter 6. Let's Dance
Chapter 7. Children of the Revolution
Chapter 8. Light & Magic
Part III: The Poet-Collector
Chapter 9. A Past We Can Look Forward To
Chapter 10. Boomerang Effect
Chapter 11. Ghosts In the Museum
Not a Conclusion, But an Invitation in Three Parts
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| Published | 18 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 280 |
| ISBN | 9781978760288 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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