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So that's where a theory or a conception of the imaginary and of the imagination which has traditionally been in the care of our artists, our writers, and so forth comes in. It turns out that the utopian visionary thought about the future and so forth doesn't always take a liberatory turn. It also can take the form of a new system of oppression, in which you live out fantasies of domination against what you regard as the enemy of the community, whoever it may be, whether defined in terms of race or class.
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CB: Truly, and given that artists and sundry specialists in imagining have to eat too, and that ruling classes by and large control the resources of society, it may even be that most celebrated imaginings in history have been anti-liberatory , or ,art is bad.