What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.

—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965

Maya Singhal

Niki Kekos
June 4, 2019

Maya Singhal is a doctoral student in anthropology at Harvard University. Her research is concerned with organized crime, narcotics trafficking, kung fu and histories of capital in African American and Chinese American communities.

Harvard University, Ph.D. Student