Rethinking Cornelius Castoriadis’s Crisis of Autonomy and Imagination: A Critical Engagement with Augusto Boal and Chela Sandoval
Lívia de Souza Lima
What the paper says
This article examines Castoriadis’s diagnosis of a crisis of autonomy and imagination, which suggests a collapse in the ability to conceive profound social transformations. While he attributes the crisis of imagination to a decline in the will for autonomy, addressing this crisis requires examining the conditions under which imagination is suppressed. Nominating epistemic injustice as a starting point, I propose reevaluating the problem of radical imagination through the paradigm of domination as a systemic and structural issue. Instead of a crisis, the problem may lie in the inadequacy of methodologies for creating conducive conditions and for recognizing emancipatory technologies from the perspective of the oppressed. To address this, I engage in a dialogue with the works of feminist philosopher Chela Sandoval and the dramaturg Augusto Boal to explore how methodologies and resistance technologies of the oppressed might be fostered and revealed.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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