Anya: It is common that radical imaginaries (new ideas/aesthetics) either die or move to central imaginaries (normalised ideas) (look at Ernst and Schröter Media Futures and their interpretation of Cornelius Castoriadis' theory of imagination). What are ways of keeping new radical imaginaries radical? And why would we want to? What does stability radical but also consistent imaginary bring us (socially? politically?) if it is not normalised?
Bottici, C. (2018). From the politics of imagination to Imaginal politics. Themes and Debates Journal. ISSN 1666-0714, issue 36, pp. 21-39.
Fisher, M. (2016). Capitalist Realism. [Realismo Capitalista]. Buenos Aires, Caja Negra.
Fisher, M. (2018). The Weird and the Eerie. [Lo raro y lo Espeluznante]. Buenos Aires, Caja Negra.
Goh, A. (2019). Appropriating the Alien: A critique of Xenofeminism. Mute. https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/appropriating-alien-critique-xenofeminism
Hayles, N. Katherine (2017) Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press.
I made a work around medical imaging and homogenous bodies - creating intentionally limited datasets/mixed of real/unreal images https://katietindle.co.uk/portfolio/they-were-expected-to-see-what-stuff-she-was-made-of/ (Apols for being self referential, its also a few years old)
I wondered if the exhibition, Cryptid by Joey Holder, was a useful or relevant reference. Some more info here. Holder was interested in possible creatures, exploring "explore queer ecology and the limitations of Western scientific taxonomy." The exhibition focuses on plankton as "one of the most understudied and diverse groups of creatures on the planet" and which is vital to all life on earth. --Mateus (talk) 17:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Hester, H. (2018). Xenofeminism. John Wiley & Sons.
Nguyên, T. T., Huynh, T. T., Nguyen, P. L., Liew, A. W., Yin, H., & Nguyen, Q. V. H. (2022). A survey of machine unlearning. arXiv (Cornell University). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2209.02299
Made me think of Bifo: that imagination is under attack from the creative industries...
Martyna Marciniak also put forward the thesis that we’re in a crisis of imagination (as a reoccurring theme) - which is a crisis is of images and visual sensitivity. I’m also reminded of the Sheila Jasanoff and Sang Hyun Kim’s "sociotechnical imaginaries" ... and how technologies (like image or language generation by statistical modelling, for example) have an implicit imaginary within (rather than just preventing us from imagining). That statistical modelling not just prevents imagining, but also presents an infrastucturing of imagination ... how they are an imaginary. --See Sensing the uncanny
Ọnụọha, M. (2024, 1st January). The Library of Missing Datasets. MIMI ỌNỤỌHA. https://mimionuoha.com/the-library-of-missing-datasets
Picón, D., Castro, J., & Rocío, D. (2021, noviembre). La imaginación (temporada ELR171). Recuperado 8 de enero de 2024, de https://open.spotify.com/episode/4hEYgzMJj43jN2j4Hnj8Ue?si=66eef3748744404a
Reminds me to Hayles and cognitive assemblage and print vs. digital publications https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=B026FB7493C4E65D975857DACDCEE4F2 --Anonymous, 29, January 2024 (UTC) on the collective Pad.
XenoVisual Studies (2024, 11th January). XenoVisualStudies. https://xenovisualstudies.com/