In a culture where derrangement and disequilibrium are the constant and inescapable climate of a politics of bewilderment, the militant tactic is not intoxication and excess but to come to our senses and to learn to live in the space they open up.
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Within the present order, new models of order can be conceived, realised, maintained and dissolved, to leave a world that will seem less intractable.
The issue is not transcendence or escape but to realise that we do not confront an objective and final reality, that the means are available, that in any situation there may be intelligence, movement, sufficient light.
Imaginative transformation should be considered as preliminary to a corresponding transformation at the level of materials and events.
--Thomas A. Clark, 'On Imaginative Space'.
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