Social Routes of the Imaginary

Pier Luca Marzo teaches sociology of social change and sociology of imaginary at Department of Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Education and Cultural Studies (COSPECS), University of Messina. He is editor in chief and founder of the open access journal Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary, and member of the scientific board of AIS (The Italian Sociological Association) Imaginary section.Luca Mori is associate professor of sociology at the University of Verona. His research focuses on social theory, sociology of health and illness and social imaginaries.

This new edited collection is a highly readable, thought-provoking update and expansion of theories of materiality and the phenomenology of the imaginary, relevant to a new generation seeking to theorize questions of social integration and social change. It should be on the list of graduate foundational readings across programs in sociology, STS, and media and cultural studies.

• Preface: For Sociology of the Imaginary and Depth Sociology, Domenico SecondulfoIntroduction: The Sociological Perspective of the Imaginary, Pier Luca Marzo and Luca Mori1: The Imaginary Nature of the Social: A Morphological Approach, Pier Luca Marzo2: The Power of Image: Imaginary, Knowledge and Method in the Social Creation of Reality, Fabio D’Andrea and Valentina Grassi3: The Imaginary and The Social Bond: The unconscious life of representations, Luca Mori4: Imaginary, Technology, and Social Change, Maria Giovanna Musso5: Imaginary and Communication: From the corporal Device of Homo sapiens to the typographical imaginary of early modernity, Stefano Cristante6: Imaginary and Communication: From the analogical body of technical reproducibility to the digital imaginary, Sergio Brancato7: The Matter of Imaginary in the Dynamics and Tensions of the Social World, Antonio Tramontana8: The Material and the Imaginary, Vincenzo Mele9: The Imaginary Roots of Politics: A Weberian Reading, Milena Me