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The discussion follows the book’s three-stage structure, from social and political imagination as collective mental maps, to how ideas emerge and translate into action, and finally to future political imaginaries. It highlights examples across history and modern innovation ecosystems while warning about dangerous imaginaries justified by extreme ideologies.","Geoff Mulgan, Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political  \nImagination, London: C. Hurst & Co., 2022. ISBN: 9781787386914 (cloth)  \nManaging Our Imagination? Musing on Geoff Mulgan’sAnother World Is Possible  \nAs large swaths ofthe world population suddenly found themselves in isolation over the course of 2020 and 2021 during the global pandemic, I vividly remember feeling a strange kind of excitement sparked by the realisation that life as I had been experiencing it up until then, could be fundamentally different. This feeling was fuelled by and echoed in newspaper editorials and essays, especially during the early COVID-19 period. Interpreters from across the political spectrum viewed the pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns as a watershed moment that could lead to system-wide social change. In the first year of the pandemic, Politico headlined “Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How”(Politico 2020), while rock-star philosopher Slavoj Žižek pondered the possibility that the global events of 2020 “will also compel us to reinvent Communism based on trust in the people and in science”(Žižek 2020) .  \nThis sudden moment of large-scale stillness and introspection, which opened up imaginative possibilities and hopes for social change, also inspired Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London, to write Another World is Possible, in which he explores what role creative imagination can play in achieving a better future. The book starts with the observation that “we’re suffering from an ‘imaginary crisis’”, which results in a collective apathy in which “[w]e can more easily imagine the end of the world than a better future”(p.5) . To support this claim and open up possible solutions, Mulgan takes his readers on a journey covering a wide array of perspectives on imagination, in the hope of inspiring them to “look at any social arrangement and see not just what it is but also what it could be”(p.10) . Guiding the way, Mulgan unfolds his inquiry in three stages. The book first sheds light on the concepts of social and political imagination, roughly defined as collective fictions that serve as mental maps that help us make sense of the past, present, and future. Recognising that our individual and collective life is built around imagination, rejects a deterministic view of the progress of history and shows that we can actively shape and alter its course. Mulgan identifies the fundamental role of imagination in the Old Testament, emancipation movements such as 19th century  \nabolitionism and the more contemporary Zapatistas, utopic (and dystopic) literature, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. The main point: imagination is an essential human activity, practised throughout history, in countless places and forms. Then, the book zooms in on ideas as the product of imagination and tracks how ideas are born and how they can be successfully translated into action. These chapters provide a blueprint for Mulgan’s conceptualisation of social imagination, which he understands to spring from the collective unconsciousness of a society. This process of imagination is influenced by external factors, such as time and money and the social milieux, and ultimately leads to the formulation of ideas. Ideas are in this sense the tangible nuggets that arise from the unconsciousness through the activity of imagination. In the third set of chapters Mulgan sketches contours for the possibilities of imagination in the coming years, while warning of the threat of dangerous imaginaries and exploring possible routes for future political imaginaries. These two chapters stand in an interesting contrast. On the one hand, Mulgan underlines the need for political imaginaries that reject negative politics and rather take up a truly positive project that opens up future potentials. 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