Imaginary
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This text was originally written for the tenth anniversary issue of the Journal of Environmental Thought and Education (Japan). This is an expanded and revised version (June 20, 2018). Links to several earlier versions are included.
This is a final draft. Please cite only the published in Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker and Michael J. Thompson, Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics: The Betrayal of Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,... more
Ce livre développe, à partir de Merleau-Ponty, Henry et Sartre, une phénoménologie décrivant la vie perceptive du point de vue du désir d'éprouver qui s'y déploie. L'auteur interroge, selon différents chemins tout à la fois opposés et... more
With whom does the poetry translator translate? To what extent is he accompanied by other voices, other imaginaries than his own, that will give his translation its full meaning? These questions are particularly important when we consider... more
Published as chapter 2 of The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism (Bloomsbury: New York and London: 2013). An earlier version was published in Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2010).
The book identifies the predominant archetypes and images in Dracula, showing to what extent they represent relevant issues to Victorian society and the audiences the novel has had since then. The work is published in a crucial historical... more
This is a revised version (5/23/18) of "Cornelius Castoriadis: Thinking About Political Theory," originally published in Capitalism Nature Socialism #49 (2002): 67-74.
Originally published in Drain, Issue 11, Vol. 5, No.2., "Psychogeography" (October, 2008). Revised and published as chapter 2 of Surregional Explorations (Chicago: Charles Kerr, 2012).
If humans construct and imagine their worlds, what then is the common grounding condition of that construction? Or, more prosaically, what are the dominant social imaginaries, local and global, through which we as humans live in these... more
[FR] On pourrait synthétiser les approches de la traduction à l’aide de deux figures mythiques opposées : Hermès et Orphée. Le premier est métaphore d’une traduction herméneutique qu’on pourrait dire sourcière, visant à transposer le... more
The dissertation investigates how military UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicles), or so-called drones, are represented within the aesthetic field as a “drone imaginary,” reflecting radical changes in the history of warfare. Using the imaginary... more
Like imaginaries in general, tourism imaginaries have a function: to satisfy social needs, aspirations, and fantasies. Identities of destinations and their inhabitants are endlessly (re)invented, (re)produced, (re)captured and (re)created... more
Simulacrumul nu este acela care ascunde adevărul – el este adevărul care ascunde faptul că nu mai e nici unul.
It is undeniable that technology plays a key role in the construction of Japanese identity. As has been noted by authors like Toshiya Ueno, the idea of a hypertechnological Japan is connected to orientalism, and as such is influenced by... more
The decolonization of the social imaginary has been proposed as an important dimension of the transition towards a degrowth society. However, although omnipresent in the degrowth literature, the terms ‘‘social imaginary’’ and ‘‘social... more
Les conditions de substantielle précarité, plus ou moins accentuées selon les cas, dans lesquelles ces jeunes évoluaient avant leur départ pour l’Italie, ne représentent pas l’unique facteur de départ. Par l’exploitation de données... more
Little introduction to the history of the origins of astrology, between antique and modern myths and what History can say.
This is a revised and expanded version of a text written for a PM Press authors session on “Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change” at the Left Forum on June 3, 2017. In it, I try to summarize, briefly and inadequately, some... more
What is architecture's ontological status?
A paper about the notions of utopia, radical, daydream and practice in the search for a definition of architecture: architecture as architectureness
A paper about the notions of utopia, radical, daydream and practice in the search for a definition of architecture: architecture as architectureness
Review of Robert Nisbet's book entitled "Sociology as an art form" published in Im@go
Chile's geographical remoteness has largely defined the imaginaries people share about this Latin American country. Despite its historical image as finis terrae (“the end of the world”), migrants from all corners found their way to these... more
Taking a social constructionist approach but of a practical rather than a theoretical kind - I shall discuss the processes within which people, between themselves, construct 'organized settings' of enabling/constraints 'into' which to... more
Esta proposta de discussão é fruto do desenvolvimento das pesquisas originadas do Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso, que objetivou analisar a construção do imaginário acerca da figura do Diabo na sociedade católica europeia no século XV.... more
El presente estudio analiza los viajes comerciales de Marco Polo y las representaciones culturales e imaginarias que se construyen sobre Oriente durante la Edad Media. En primer lugar, se examina de manera metodológica e historiográfica... more
In this paper we study the secular path of European fantasies, through the analysis of the main printed material and travel narratives to the New World, which illustrated De Bry, Levinus Hulsius, Jacob van Meurs and Pieter van der Aa,... more
I had posted this article of mine already a few years ago with the title "British Imperialism, Tibet, China and Sovereignty Debate"
Une traduction ne peut se résumer à un échange clair et univoque de signes, qui seraient automatiquement remplaçables l’un par l’autre. La notion d’imaginaire permet d’éclairer les choix traductifs, d’une part en mettant à jour certaines... more
Este artículo reconstruye la teoría de Cornelius Castoriadis sobre el imaginario político de las sociedades desde una perspectiva lingüística. Después de analizar detalladamente sus características principales, se argumenta que el... more
To see the official version: Markham, A. (2020). The limits of the imaginary: Challenges of intervening in future speculations of memory, data, and algorithmic archiving. New Media & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820929322... more
Attempting to develop a communicational theory of the imaginary, this chapter considers the imaginary in its constitutive plurality. It suggests a good way to study the notion is to examine all the movement of its social uses and how... more
This is a revised version of an earlier text written for the book Rêves et passions d’un chercheur militant: Mélanges offerts à Ronald Creagh (Lyon: Atelier de Création Libertaire, 2016), pp. 29-39.
This paper attempts to frame a hermeneutic narratology of interactive digital storytelling in light of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy and the narratology of the French New Rhetoric. For starters, I propose to bring to light an underlying... more