Construction Site for Possible Worlds av Amanda Beech

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<b>Perspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds.</b><p>Given the highly coercive and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, when the tremendous pressures exerted by capital on contemporary life produces an aggressively normative “official reality,” the question of the construction of other possible worlds is crucial and perhaps more urgent than ever.</p><p>This collection brings together different perspectives from the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, and art to discuss the mechanisms through which possible worlds are thought, constructed, and instantiated, forcefully seeking to overcome the contemporary moment''s deficit of conceptualizing alternate realities—its apparent fear of imagining possible new and compelling futures—to begin the arduous task of producing the political dynamics necessary for actual construction.</p><p>Implicit in this dynamic between the imaginary and the poss