1Halos: Making More Room in the World for New Political Orders

This chapter represents a small part of a more general attempt to struggle over the hill of various Western philosophies, social sciences, and forms of politics in order to see a new, more open vista, one in which, through the articulation of an ontology of achievement, different associations are able to be made and made manifest, different togethernesses are thereby able to be forged, and different landscapes of possibility are subsequently able to be uncovered. In order to limit what is clearly an enormous number of lines of enquiry I have therefore fixed upon just one aspect of this attempt, namely the politics of the imagination. However, I make no apologies for choosing this as my touchstone for different imaginative dispositions and propensities might well be thought of as the basis of political-moral authority1. For example, it can be argued that, if power means the capacity to make somebody do what she would not otherwise do, then whoever possesses the capacity to influence others