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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
Christopher Harris
Christopher Paul Harris is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the African American Studies Department at Northwestern University. His research interests include Black political thought, Black critical theory, Black culture, and Black aesthetics. Alongside his scholarship, Christopher is a member of the Black Youth Project 100, and a contributing editor at Public Seminar, an intellectual commons for analysis, critique, and debate. In addition to this, he is co-curator of a dedicated section on the Movement for Black Lives in the permanent exhibition “Activist New York” at the Museum of the City of New York, has written lesson plans on the movement for teachers in the NYC school system, and co-produced the award-winning documentary short Acting Erratically (a term often used euphemistically by police when confronting allegedly unruly suspects).
Northwestern University, Post Doctoral Fellow