Imagination and social organization

from the Macalester Public Knowledge Base

This is an eight-week free (as in free beer and free speech) class offered through the Work People’s College of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Experimental College (EXCO).

There is a webpage/blog for this class, and interested folks are invited to take a look over | there.

[edit] Class Description

This class is dedicated the concept of the ‘imagination,’ which is increasingly used almost as a code-word for modern struggles for social justice and liberation.

But what do we mean when we use the word? This class will examine the history of the word in philosophy and practice, from Greek and Muslim philosophers to contemporary social thinkers, and rely on the participation of the students to create a practice-based definition of the word, and justification for why we might (or might not) care about ‘liberating the imaginary.’

This class may be of interest especially to workers and students involved in such movements but lacking a philosophical background, or students of philosophy and psychology with an interest in such movements.

The class will meet for eight weeks, from January 27 – March 17, 2007. Saturdays, 3:00-5:00 PM, at the Central Library in downtown Minneapolis

To register or ask questions, please leave your comments below and the facilitator will respond as quickly as possible.

You are also warmly invited to attend an informational session about all of the Experimental College's Spring class offerings, and meet the facilitator for this class in person, on Jan. 25, 2007, at 6 p.m. in the JBD Lecture Hall in the basement of Macalester College's Campus Center.

Childcare will be provided for all classes