Imaginal Interventions: An Interview with Chiara Bottici

Auteurs

Rob Ritzen Free University of Brussels

Trefwoorden:

imaginal, imaginary, imagination, politics, political

Samenvatting

This concerns an interview on the work of Chiara Bottici and more specific het book Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary.
Chiara Bottici is a philosopher and writer. She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at New School for Social Research. She is the author of Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and The Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014), A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Men and States (Palgrave, 2009). With Benoit Challand, she also co-authored Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations (Routledge, 2010). She also co-edited the collection of essays The Politics of Imagination (Routledge, 2011, with Benoit Challand) and The Anarchist Turn (Pluto 2013, with Simon Critchley and Jacob Blumenfeld). Her short stories have appeared in Il Caffe illustrato, while her novel Per tre miti, forse quattro was published by Manni Editore in 2016.

Biografie auteur

Rob Ritzen, Free University of Brussels

Rob Ritzen is a curator and philosopher. He is co-initiator of That Might Be Right, an organization for collaboration and alternatives to the present. He curated: Between the Sheets: Intimate Experiments, Loving Assembly, Affecting Commons (2017) a series of assemblies where cultural practitioners presented their work, thoughts and interests in an supportive scenography; We Tell Stories - An Anthology (2012) a series of exhibitions which explored the notion of storytelling in artistic practices and the potential to overcome the separation between doer/thinker/spectator; When Squares [Re]Frame Meaning (2011) an exhibition on the public square as a place for the production of meaning, inspired by the Arab Spring and the occupation of Tahrir Square.

Gepubliceerd

2017-11-05

Citeerhulp

Ritzen, Rob. 2017. “Imaginal Interventions: An Interview With Chiara Bottici”. Krisis | Tijdschrift Voor Hedendaagse Filosofie 37 (2):42-49. https://krisis.eu/article/view/37176.