Imagination, Our Commune

Abstract

Today, the earth—with its forests, subsoil, etc.—is no longer ours, but only in the hands of the few who exploit it until exhaustion. At that moment, we long to revolt in order to recover that “common” that has been taken from us. But what does this "common" (in singular) hide? Based on a series of concrete images and on a line of thought that builds a bridge from strictly Marxist criticism to an approach that declares itself in the line of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and of a "phenomenology of the body", this article proposes a reflection on imagination as our common faculty and, in addition, as "our Commune", a word that should be thought of with a capital C, something like our first faculty of uprising, our first "free" power to reorganize the world in another way, in a fairer way. The density of the world must then be imagined. This will lead us to make a small tour of red, or rather of imagining red as the color of human desires, of the powers that either traverse or surround them, the powers that either mobilize or threaten them.