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An erratum from the previous HAU announcement. The Maurice Bloch Seminar is to be held on Friday, January 20, 2017 (not Wednesday). Please see below and our apologies for the error.
HAU AND MQB SEMINAR: “HOW IMAGINATION IS SHARED” BY MAURICE BLOCH — FRIDAY, JANUARY 20TH
The ongoing seminar, "Anthropology of the Imagination," co-sponsored by HAU and Musée du Quai Branly - Jacque Chirac, and organized by Carlo Severi (EHESS) and Giovanni da Col (SOAS), is pleased to present:
"HOW IMAGINATION IS SHARED"
A Seminar by Maurice Bloch (London School fo Economics)
Friday, January 20, 2017
17:30 - 19:30
Salle 1
Musée du Quai Branly - Jacque Chirac
Presenter's description of the seminar:
The topic of imagination presents a problem for social scientists. The term imagination in everyday use implies a celebration of individual innovation. In psychology also work on imagination has focussed on individual creativity. Social scientists, on the other hand, are interested in shared representations which negate individual creativity. The work I am engaged in at present puts forward the argument that the human social is quite different to that of other species in that it requires the imagination of social relations that transcend continual fluidity. (What structural-functionalists were talking about.) This transcendental is therefore anti-empirical. It is both imaginary and shared. What I shall argue is that, although humans are individually predisposed for this sort of imagination, when they develop in a particular historically constructed social context, as they must, this individual predisposition becomes synchronised with that of other individuals so that it becomes shared. Part of my argument will concern ritual.
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