{"id":31383,"date":"2022-02-28T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/?page_id=31383"},"modified":"2024-04-02T15:33:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:33:35","slug":"the-deep-imagination-metaphor-and-alls-one-vision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/the-deep-imagination-metaphor-and-alls-one-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deep Imagination, Metaphor, and \u201cAll\u2019s One\u201d Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is an excerpt from one of the presentations featured in the Pari Center\u2019s event\u00a0The Enchanted Universe<\/a><\/strong>, in Pari from August 29 to September 5, 20<\/em>22.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

with Alison MacLeod<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our era of \u2018fake news\u2019, the human imagination often seems faulty. It \u2018makes stuff up\u2019. It \u2018messes with the facts\u2019. With instances of literary censorship on the rise, imagined worlds are also increasingly deemed dangerous. At the same time, some exponents of artificial intelligence argue that AI will render the labours of the imagination redundant. Yet, to arrive at a better future, we must imagine it first. How do we re-discover the vital nature of the deep imagination?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this session, participants will be invited to reflect on and renew their own sense of the imagination\u2019s transformative force. As children, we had an innate understanding of the creative plasticity of the world. We knew that all seeing is seeing as<\/em>. A cloud in the sky was a galloping horse. A tree was a castle. A stick was a wand. \u2018Deep imagination\u2019 arises from this agile, seeing-as form of perception \u2013 and metaphor is its fundamental atom of expression. Metaphorical thinking yokes experience and knowledge; empathy and intuition; body and spirit. It locates us within \u2018threshold states\u2019 in which we can, through acts of curiosity, attention and play, see through to the living flux and \u2018connectivity\u2019 of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a good metaphor? What is its magic? What is the power of metaphorical thinking in our daily world? In this presentation, Alison MacLeod will consider these questions and offer creative approaches towards metaphorical thinking and a re-engagement with the deep imagination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alison MacLeod<\/strong> is the author of six books.\u00a0 Her new novel,\u00a0Tenderness<\/em>, was a\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0\u2018Best Book of 2021\u2019, a \u2018Book of the Year\u2019 for\u00a0The Spectator<\/em>, a \u2018Best New Book\u2019 for PEOPLE Magazine, and\u00a0The Sunday Times<\/em>\u2018Historical Fiction Book of the Month\u2019.\u00a0 Her last novel, Unexploded<\/em>, was long-listed for the Man-Booker Prize for Fiction and named one of the\u00a0Observer<\/em>\u2018s \u2018Books of the Year\u2019.\u00a0 It was serialised for BBC radio and optioned for television.\u00a0 Her most recent story collection,\u00a0All the Beloved Ghosts<\/em>, was shortlisted for Canada\u2019s Governor General\u2019s Award, named one of the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u2018s \u2018Best Books of 2017\u2019, and shortlisted for The 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize for best short story collection in the UK and Ireland.\u00a0 She is often a guest on BBC programmes and is an occasional contributor The Sunday Times,<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Telegraph<\/em>.\u00a0 She has appeared at numerous literary festivals internationally and has been a guest speaker at universities throughout the UK. \u00a0Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester until 2018, she now writes full-time and is Visiting Professor at Chichester. \u00a0Currently, she is also a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund for the Cambridge University Researcher Development Centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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