Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. His latest books with Bloomsbury are 'Otherworlds: Mediterranean lessons on escaping History' (2025), 'Prophetic Culture: Recreation for adolescents' (2021), and 'Technic and Magic: The reconstruction of reality' (2018). He is Associate Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, and a lecturer at The Architectural Association in London and at ECAL in Lausanne. He is the co-founder of the Italian publishing house Timeo and a director at the Anglo-American radical publisher Verso. He frequently collaborates as speaker and public program advisor with some of the main museums in Europe.

How do we get there from here? If "there" is a more merciful, a more peaceful world, how on earth can we even imagine it? In this beautiful and empowering book, Federico Campagna shows his readers that the path is easier than they might expect. One needs simply to to jiggle the key of the imagination in the lock of the past, and lo—the secret door opens. It was there all along. Like Simone Weil, Campagna argues that the feeling of belonging somewhere is the shape of that key, that nations and empires cannot copyright this feeling...and like Cornelius Castoriadis, Campagna shows that the work of imagination, available to all brains anywhere, not reserved to lofty theorists, is the revolutionary work par excellence. A masterpiece.

• 0. Introduction: Seasons.1. Mortals – The Bronze Age2. Foreigners – Hellenism3. Cosmonauts – Late Antiquity4. Translators – The Middle Ages5. Traitors – Modernity 6. Migrants – The Contemporary AgeBibliography and Further Reading Endnote

Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. His latest books with Bloomsbury are 'Otherworlds: Mediterranean lessons on escaping History' (2025), 'Prophetic Culture: Recreation for adolescents' (2021), and 'Technic and Magic: The reconstruction of reality' (2018). He is Associate Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, and a lecturer at The Architectural Association in London and at ECAL in Lausanne. He is the co-founder of the Italian publishing house Timeo and a director at the Anglo-American radical publisher Verso. He frequently collaborates as speaker and public program advisor with some of the main museums in Europe.

How do we get there from here? If "there" is a more merciful, a more peaceful world, how on earth can we even imagine it? In this beautiful and empowering book, Federico Campagna shows his readers that the path is easier than they might expect. One needs simply to to jiggle the key of the imagination in the lock of the past, and lo—the secret door opens. It was there all along. Like Simone Weil, Campagna argues that the feeling of belonging somewhere is the shape of that key, that nations and empires cannot copyright this feeling...and like Cornelius Castoriadis, Campagna shows that the work of imagination, available to all brains anywhere, not reserved to lofty theorists, is the revolutionary work par excellence. A masterpiece.

• 0. Introduction: Seasons.1. Mortals – The Bronze Age2. Foreigners – Hellenism3. Cosmonauts – Late Antiquity4. Translators – The Middle Ages5. Traitors – Modernity 6. Migrants – The Contemporary AgeBibliography and Further Reading Endnote

Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. His latest books with Bloomsbury are 'Otherworlds: Mediterranean lessons on escaping History' (2025), 'Prophetic Culture: Recreation for adolescents' (2021), and 'Technic and Magic: The reconstruction of reality' (2018). He is Associate Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, and a lecturer at The Architectural Association in London and at ECAL in Lausanne. He is the co-founder of the Italian publishing house Timeo and a director at the Anglo-American radical publisher Verso. He frequently collaborates as speaker and public program advisor with some of the main museums in Europe.

How do we get there from here? If "there" is a more merciful, a more peaceful world, how on earth can we even imagine it? In this beautiful and empowering book, Federico Campagna shows his readers that the path is easier than they might expect. One needs simply to to jiggle the key of the imagination in the lock of the past, and lo—the secret door opens. It was there all along. Like Simone Weil, Campagna argues that the feeling of belonging somewhere is the shape of that key, that nations and empires cannot copyright this feeling...and like Cornelius Castoriadis, Campagna shows that the work of imagination, available to all brains anywhere, not reserved to lofty theorists, is the revolutionary work par excellence. A masterpiece.

• 0. Introduction: Seasons.1. Mortals – The Bronze Age2. Foreigners – Hellenism3. Cosmonauts – Late Antiquity4. Translators – The Middle Ages5. Traitors – Modernity 6. Migrants – The Contemporary AgeBibliography and Further Reading Endnote