The strongest work of climate-change lit, to call it that, that I've read is Ben Lerner's recent novel "10 04," in which the significance of daily life — the books people write, the personal relationships they try to sustain — threatens to dissolve in the face of what is, for the narrator, "a future I increasingly imagined as underwater".
Americans, on the other hand, increasingly imagine American society as unstable and deeply at risk.
He has already written eight novels and several collections of short stories, and his bestselling work is the so-called Revelation Space series of novels and stories, all set in an increasingly densely imagined universe.
As the boundary between the physical and the digital grows increasingly blurred, imagining the internet of tomorrow just becomes an exercise in envisioning the future.
If we subscribe to the idea that the world is becoming increasingly VUCA-like, imagining weak signals and possible black swans is becoming more and more crucial.
Did artists aim to show the West as it really was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, or as the increasingly dominant white culture imagined it?
Attention turned increasingly towards Elizabeth's imagined private as opposed to her well-documented public self, spiralling into speculations about a hidden love life - usually in terms of relations with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, or even Thomas Seymour, her abuser when she was 14.
In lieu of real-life communities, which are difficult to cultivate in a rapidly changing city like London where rent-hikes and gentrification make putting down roots increasingly difficult, we favour imagined ones.
According to Nicolas Shumway, Rosas "forced the citizens to wear the red Federalist insignia, and his picture appeared in all public places... Rosas's enemies, real and imagined, were increasingly imprisoned, tortured, murdered, or driven into exile by the mazorca, a band of spies and thugs supervised personally by Rosas.
People here seem increasingly unable to imagine a political solution to their ills.
It has become increasingly possible to imagine Portugal with their name on the Euro 2016 trophy.
