Serial works of art thus form a privileged field of studies since they turn this recursion and redundancy into structuring principles. This research tries to illustrate this serial conceptualization of the imaginary by analyzing serial literature, television series, comic books, serial music and dance, etc. Casanova J (2008) Secular imaginaries: introduction. Int J Polit Cult Soc 21:1–4. doi: 10.1007/s10767-008-9042-8

One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the differences among modernities, Taylor sets out his idea of the social imaginary, a broad understanding of the way a given people imagine their collective social life. John R. Searle uses the expression "social reality" rather than "social imaginary". [3] Castoriadis [ edit ] Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections upon the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. The International Journal of Social Imaginaries emerges from the journal Social Imaginaries, which consisted in an effort to gather philosophical, social-theoretical, and broader social-scientific research on the role of the creative imagination and of social imaginaries. A growing variety of approaches and disciplines focus on social imaginaries as ways in which people collectively and pre-theoretically make sense of their social and personal existence, to constitute a collective space of meanings or semantic space for co-being. 1 The International Journal of Social Imaginaries intends to build on the earlier publication effort, and helps to create a global platform for a dynamic and evermore interdisciplinary and intercultural interest in social imaginaries and aims to capture the increasingly prominent and interdisciplinary contributions in one globally accessible journal. In this, the International Journal of Social Imaginaries seeks to bring theoretical and analytical clarity in discussions on the imaginaries. It intends to do so by means of publishing established and emerging authors in human and social sciences who are shaping the field of social imaginaries. David Macey, "Introduction", Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis (London 1994) p. xxiKliebard, H. (2004). The struggle for the American curriculum 1893–1958 (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge Falmer. Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2010. The Performance of Politics. Obama’s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The development of this concept allows a better understanding of the close link between the ability to condition and organize exchanges between an experience and its representation, and a procedure based on the rhythmical repetition of one, or several, paradigms in a determined and coherent body, which allows their reproduction and inflection 6. Bringing new dimensions and insights to existing debates, such as currently in constitutional law and theory (‘constitutional imaginaries’), human rights law (‘human rights imaginary’), democratic theory (‘democratic imaginaries’), and populist politics (the ‘populist imaginary’). Mosco, Vincent (2005-01-01). The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262633291. Manow, Philip. 2010. King’s Shadow. The Political Anatomy of Democratic Representation. Cambridge/Malden: Polity. Marcus, George E. (1995-04-01). Technoscientific Imaginaries: Conversations, Profiles, and Memoirs. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226504445.

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Taylor C (2013) Retrieving realism. In: Schear JK (ed) Mind, reason, and being-in-the-world: the McDowell-Dreyfus debate. Routledge, Abingdon, pp 61–90 Bellah RN (1970) Beyond belief; essays on religion in a post-traditional world. Harper & Row, New York Marvin, Carolyn (1988-02-11). When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780198021384.Johann Arnason: The first thing I would want to say about the idea of social imaginaries is that it is a kind of crossroads concept, capable of bringing together insights and reflections from different sources. As you have argued, Castoriadis, Ricoeur and Taylor are the major thinkers whose works are essential to further elaboration. But some further connections may be suggested. Let us start with the sociological classics. Koschorke, Albrecht, Susanne Lüdemann, Thomas Frank, and Ethel Matala de Mazza. 2007. Der fiktive Staat: Konstruktionen des politischen Körpers in der Geschichte Europas. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer. Inquiring into the creativity of the imagination in shaping the human experience of the world not only on an individual, but also on the collective level—that is, the function of the imagination that is phenomenological, hermeneutical and ontological. Anderson, Benedict R. 2006. Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.