Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary (Apr 2014)

Reliance Imaginale

  • Michel Maffesoli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7413/2281-8138002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 0
pp. 10 – 18

Abstract

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Community ideals needs symbols and photos to express themselves. The author describes the “reliance imaginale” as the common spirit necessary to community ideals, which manifest themselves in the symbols recognized by those individuals who share the same interests, thereby achieving the creation of a group. The forms and methods of marking bodies produce embodied practices and bodies become marked spaces where new social trends can be traced.