De la política de la imaginación a la política Imaginal

• Autores: Chiara Bottici
• Localización: Temas y debates: revista universitaria de ciencias sociales, ISSN 1666-0714, ISSN-e 1853-984X, Nº. 36, 2018, págs. 21-39
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • From Politics of Imagination to Imaginals Politics
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  • español

    El presente artículo se propone reevaluar el vínculo conceptual entre la política y nuestra capacidad de crear imágenes. A pesar de que se ha escrito mucho en torno a la política de la imaginación, no hay muchos trabajos que evalúen críticamente el vínculo conceptual entre estos dos conceptos de una forma sistemática. Este escrito propone el concepto de Imaginal, entendido como aquello hecho por imágenes, para trascender el impasse actual de la oposición, por una parte, entre teorías de la imaginación como una facultad individual, y por otra, teoría de lo imaginario como un contexto social. A raíz de lo dicho, se fundamentará que la teoría de lo imaginal es el instrumento teórico que más se adapta para comprender la relación conceptual entre la política y nuestra capacidad de producir imágenes. Por último, este análisis se aplica a la política contemporánea y demuestra su capacidad de esclarecer muchas de sus paradojas, incluida aquella de un mundo de la política lleno de imágenes, pero privado de imaginación.

  • English

    This article intends to reconsider the conceptual link between politics and our faculty to create images. Despite the fact that much has been written about the politics of the imagination, there are not many works that critically evaluate the conceptual link between these two concepts in a systematic way. The present article proposes the concept of imaginal, understood as what is made of images, to transcend the existing impasse of the opposition between theories of imagination as an individual capacity, on the one hand, and theories of the imaginary as a social context, on the other. The concept of imaginal is the theoretical apparatus most adapted to capture the nature of the conceptual link between politics and our capacity to produce images. Finally this analysis is applied to contemporary politics and it is shown to be able to bring light to many of its paradoxes, included that of a political world full of images, but deprived of imagination

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