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RADICAL IMAGINATION (3/23-4/6)
Diane di Prima writes: “The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All other wars are subsumed in it.” If radical attention is the reclaiming of those diverse forms of human attention that resist being commodified, then radical imagination is the same for that other essential faculty given the short shrift in our historical moment: the embodied human capacity to freely explore and experience possibility.
Like attention, imagination has come to be defined by its most reductive and profitable forms. Myths that invite us into conversation with the deep contours of the unconscious have been replaced by Instagram “stories” for us to insert our shallowest performative selves. Creativity and play, rather than being free and spontaneous expressions of life belonging to all, are products sold to us as easily-consumable media or virtual worlds to lose ourselves within. Along the way, imagination has come to be associated with frivolity, unreality, and impracticality. In truth - when reclaimed and properly understood - it is one of life’s most effective and powerful gifts.
Drawing on the work of CG Jung, Ruha Benjamin, and William Blake among others, this course seeks to understand how we became alienated from this essential facet of our humanity and how we might enrich ourselves by its recovery. Our journey will take us from depth psychology and visionary poetry through theatrical improvisation and role-play, landing at last on workable strategies for a rebellion of the human imagination.
Led by Henry Kramer, educator and Academic Dean at the School of Radical Attention.
Mondays, 6:45 - 9:15pm EST
March 23rd-April 6th
Our courses cost $250, with an Advanced rate for students with an income above 100k. We also offer a Discounted rate for students with constraining circumstances.
Please see our Refund Policy HERE.
Additionally, we offer three tuition-waiver scholarships per course. To apply for a scholarship, click HERE.
Photo credit: Nagomi (utopia753 on ig)
Diane di Prima writes: “The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All other wars are subsumed in it.” If radical attention is the reclaiming of those diverse forms of human attention that resist being commodified, then radical imagination is the same for that other essential faculty given the short shrift in our historical moment: the embodied human capacity to freely explore and experience possibility.
Like attention, imagination has come to be defined by its most reductive and profitable forms. Myths that invite us into conversation with the deep contours of the unconscious have been replaced by Instagram “stories” for us to insert our shallowest performative selves. Creativity and play, rather than being free and spontaneous expressions of life belonging to all, are products sold to us as easily-consumable media or virtual worlds to lose ourselves within. Along the way, imagination has come to be associated with frivolity, unreality, and impracticality. In truth - when reclaimed and properly understood - it is one of life’s most effective and powerful gifts.
Drawing on the work of CG Jung, Ruha Benjamin, and William Blake among others, this course seeks to understand how we became alienated from this essential facet of our humanity and how we might enrich ourselves by its recovery. Our journey will take us from depth psychology and visionary poetry through theatrical improvisation and role-play, landing at last on workable strategies for a rebellion of the human imagination.
Led by Henry Kramer, educator and Academic Dean at the School of Radical Attention.
Mondays, 6:45 - 9:15pm EST
March 23rd-April 6th
Our courses cost $250, with an Advanced rate for students with an income above 100k. We also offer a Discounted rate for students with constraining circumstances.
Please see our Refund Policy HERE.
Additionally, we offer three tuition-waiver scholarships per course. To apply for a scholarship, click HERE.
Photo credit: Nagomi (utopia753 on ig)