“The imaginaries finally lost their air of impossibility when nineteenth-century mathematicians realized that they're actually perfectly ordinary, law-abiding numerical beings-it's just that they hail from a different dimension. We'll go there later on.” — David Stipp Copy Share Image
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (αυτο-νομούνται). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image