The idea that there is such a thing as a "social imaginary" and that this hegemonic interpretative lens is more significant than material reality, that our imaginary influences our politics and culture more than technology, economic relations, or class divisions do, can be traced back to the French radical Cornelius Castoriadis. This video critically examines his book "On the Imaginary Institution of Society" while taking an excerpt from the upcoming book "Unlearning Marx" by Steve Paxton. Relevant Books Unlearning Marx by Steve Paxton https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/unlearning-marx The Imaginary Institution of Society by Cornelius Castoriadis https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/imaginary-institution-society Featured Music Disco by strange day https://soundcloud.com/strange-day Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/disco-strange-day Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/5QoSPWN6a3I Track: The Valley — tubebackr [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/gFfJN7GSNHg Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/valley Macintosh Plus Cover from The Guests https://theguests000.bandcamp.com/album/popular-music-2 Lucien sebag https://soundcloud.com/user-964536902/sets/il-vile Support Zero Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books Zero Books Manifesto: The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization. Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tJDrngNWYc

The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live – a central motif of the horror genre. http://www.zero-books.net/books/in-the-dust-of-this-planet ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x2G6VCP_Zk