Politics of prefiguration
“In her book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit uses the phrase “politics of prefiguration” to describe the kind of work that groups like the Albany Free School do. One tiny corner of the world—one small community, one co-op, one school—models a different way to run things, embodies principles we want to see more of: democracy, egalitarianism, compassion, creativity. “Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs,” Solnit writes, “even if it’s a temporary and local place, this paradise of participating, this vale where souls gets made.”
—Astra Taylor, “Unschooling” (n+1, Issue 13: Machine Politics)
