Hope gets a bad rap, especially among liberals, in an age of crippling cynicism so I am providing an old quote of mine that reminds me of why hope matters. Hope must be tempered by the complex reality of the times and viewed as a project and condition for providing a sense of collective agency,opposition, political imagination, and engaged participation. Without hope, even in the most dire of times. there is no possibility for resistance, dissent, and struggle. Agency is the condition of struggle, and hope is the condition of agency. Hope expands the space of the possible, and becomes a way of recognising and naming the incomplete nature of the present.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 00:32:26 +0000
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