Magic, attention, and imagination
 

Fremeaux & Jordan 75: "The best magic, and the same is true for art and activism, assumes that attention is an organizing principle of reality, it is an instrument of imagination."
 
"Being able to use the instrument of magic is simply recognizing and training the power of imagination, to create reality, rather than escape it."
 
76: "Given the urgency of the epoch, the best way of doing this is not alone [...] it is weaving yourself into creative movements of struggle, which are the most powerful forms of everyday magic"

> from Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan's We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones (2021)

> tagged with #activism, #art, #attention, #imagination, #magic

> created Jun 26, 2025 at 9:14:16 AM


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