A New Political Imagination: Making the Case

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Table of contents
About the authors
Prolegomena
Introduction: The political (de)formation of the now
	The failure of politics in the end times
	Democracy in crisis: recasting the debate
	A starting point: the trilateral commission
	The undemocratic underbelly of democracy
	Voices speaking crisis: a sampler
	Recasting: the relational actuality of crisis
	Our ambitions and intent
	References
1 Openings: Configuring the critical and criticality
	The moment of criticality and the now of crisis
	History without telos
	Unsettlement at the end of directional time
	Undirected futureless ‘leadership’
	Chronophobia and the existential repression of crisis
	The culture of de-relational knowledge
	On relationality
		Heidegger/Descartes – Arendt/ Heidegger – Arendt/Levinas
	The collapse of ‘the Nomos of the earth’
	Confronting complexity beyond an ability to fully comprehend the complex
	Notes
	References
2 A lexicon of analytics
	Fracture zones
		Geopolitical reconfigurations, fractures and war
			Reimag(in)ing the perpetual war
			The post-peace condition and the looming geopolitics of survival
			From enemies to dispensable lives
			Cooperate rather than compete?
				The Arctic:
				China – South and East China Seas:
				Southwest Russia/Northwest China:
				Russia/Eastern Europe:
				India/Pakistan:
				Egypt/Ethiopia:
				Africa:
				Southeast Asia:
				Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen and Afghanistan:
				Venezuela/Colombia and Brazil:
		Opening into the futuring of a tragic world
		War now
		Climate change reimag(in)ed
			Un-bounding the climate
			One as many
			Time mis-placed
			Displaced causality
		Ontological rupture
			The ontological obstacles, rupture, and two breakaways
				Encounter two
		The lighter and darker sides of the (post)human
			Re-subjection (political and technological)
			Development, un-development and the agenda of postdevelopment
			Nationalism and cosmopolitanism undone
			The state of exception as a post-democratic/postsocialist normative condition
			The many faces of the ‘posthuman’
			A critique of critical posthumanism
			An other humanism as a humanism of the other
		Technological constructions of reality
			Take one: making real
			Take two: the technological construction of whose real?
			From epistemological to digital techno-colonialism
			Relationality and technology
			Technology and the human counter-agency
	The epistemological maze
		Pathways
		Path one: the reality circuit of western epistemology
		Path two: the narrow way
		Path three: the way of the believer (faith in reason)
			On disciplinary decadence, post-disciplines and beyond
			The onto-epistem-ology and the corpopolitics of knowledge
		Path four: political theology
			Political theology from the 1930s to the present
			The past as the future
			Political theology and political imagination
		Path five: the ontotheological
		Path six: the anti-epistemological
		Path seven: the Eurocentric dead-end and border thinking
			Multi-spatial hermeneutics
		Path eight: relearning to learn
		Path nine: the way out
	Notes
	References
3 Narratives of gathering(s) of the political
	On gathering
	Prefiguring the political and politics now
	The now of the political
	The obstacles
	The political (and) community: an opening into
	Nancy meets Simondon
	After democracy. Futuring the political: gatherings
	What is to be gathered?
	Notes
	References
4 Imagination otherwise
	The ineffability of complexity and the unbearable inaccuracy of language
	Imagination after postmodernism?
	Imagination and the technological
	A refusal to imagine the end times and the impasse of the sweatshop sublime
	Post-Marxist reanimations of the commons: aesthetics as politics
	Breaking the Euromodern epistemic dead-end?
	Decolonial imaginary and decolonial aesthesis
	Undoing something previously created and/or remaking it
	Reconsidering the imagination through survival
	Some ways of imagining an imagination otherwise
	The need for a new political imagination reinstated
	Context-formed theory and counter-academy pedagogy
	Note
	References
5 Towards a research agenda and researching research
	Part 1. Openings into research agendas
		Mapping the obstacles course of the future
		Figures of inter-relational engagement
			Cluster1. Climate/anthropology/technology/psychology conflict
			Cluster 2. Extinction/migration/biopolitics/posthumanism/post-nation/community
		Staging the event of imagination
		Points towards a summary
	Part 2: A reply in the form of events
		Mapping the obstacles course of the future
		Accounting the first act of the play of the new age of fire
		An inter-relational engagement
			Loss, unsettlement, habitus
		A staged event
			A conversation in and on a borderland (a documented dialogue) between TF/MT
		Last words: a dialogue
	A final note on resistance
	Notes
	References
Index