Stillness as a Form of Imaginative Labour

  • Theodoros Kyriakides University of Manchester

Abstract


This essay connects the practice of stillness to David Graeber's concepts of imaginative labour and immanent imagination. It makes the proposition that stillness should not be evaluated as lack of activity or movement, but rather attended to in its pragmatic and productive dimensions. The essay thus explores stillness as a potential mode of production of imagination and means of political transformation: in order for it to be meaningful, we need to reconfigure our relationship to stillness as one of imagination, resistance, thinking, and writing.

Author Biography

Theodoros Kyriakides, University of Manchester
Department of Social Anthropology, PhD student
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/unfamiliar.v4i1.1095
Published
22-Dec-2014
How to Cite
Kyriakides, T. (2014). Stillness as a Form of Imaginative Labour. The Unfamiliar, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.2218/unfamiliar.v4i1.1095
Issue
Vol 4 No 1 (2014): Imagining the Future
Section
ESSAYS II

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