A shared imaginative field built by art, story, ritual, and symbols to bind a community.
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Common imagination
A shared imaginative field built by art, story, ritual, and symbols to bind a community.
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Art is presented as a social technology for combining imagination into society, belonging, and community.
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"...story about who we are, okay? We're trying to combine our imagination together to create society, to create belonging, to create community. Okay? Does..."
"...and where we're going. Okay? And it's designed to build a common imagination. Okay? No different from the cave paintings. We still do this..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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