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BOTTICI, Chiara. From Politics of Imagination to Imaginals Politics. Temas debates (En línea) [online]. 2018, n.36, pp.21-39. ISSN 1853-984X.

This article intends to reconsider the conceptual link between politics and our faculty to create images. Despite the fact that much has been written about the politics of the imagination, there are not many works that critically evaluate the conceptual link between these two concepts in a systematic way. The present article proposes the concept of imaginal, understood as what is made of images, to transcend the existing impasse of the opposition between theories of imagination as an individual capacity, on the one hand, and theories of the imaginary as a social context, on the other. The concept of imaginal is the theoretical apparatus most adapted to capture the nature of the conceptual link between politics and our capacity to produce images. Finally this analysis is applied to contemporary politics and it is shown to be able to bring light to many of its paradoxes, included that of a political world full of images, but deprived of imagination

Palabras clave : Political; Politics; Imaginal; Imagination; Imaginary.

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