Through a more context-sensitive analysis of this data, this paper argues against this popular spatial imaginary and the notion that the Louisville's West End is somehow separate and apart from the rest of the city.
Zhang says the enclosed box experiment represents an "enclosed imaginary" — the common notion that we humans can divorce ourselves from certain creatures (such as flies) and unsavory processes (such as dealing with municipal waste).
It is not based on risks that science has proven are imaginary, or on false notions of "toxins", or fear of chemicals that occur naturally in foods and the soil and are added to medicines.
It is also commonly accepted that when people open their hearts and minds, the imaginary labels, the preconceived notions and the prejudices weaken.
Or, at least, they loved the notion of an imaginary Red Lion.
Irigaray (1985) and Jane Gallop (1982), among others, argue, contrary to Freud and Lacan, for a more fluid notion of the imaginary, one that produces more humane and faithful images of women to shift the culture and to reflect that cultural ideas shift (see also Hansen 2000).
While the fair itself might not serve as the inspiration for a utopian society, several projects at this year's Art Basel invoke the notion of the imaginary, the ideal, and the impossible.
Moira Gatens (1996), in exploring the notion of bodily imaginaries, draws on the work of Spinoza.
Unfortunately in her discussion of this issue, Salamon appeals to Butler's notion of the morphological imaginary which itself actually does appear to privilege the sexual.
Feminist theorists of the body, working with the notion of the bodily imaginary, therefore see creative acts directed at alterations in our mode of perceiving bodies, as central to the process of political and social transformation (Lennon 2004).
