Decolonial Media Imaginaries (DMI) begins from the basic premise that imaginaries serve an important role in the articulation and elaboration of identity, sociality, collectivity, and solidarity, especially in terms of the co-fashioning of ways of life and living.

Imaginaries are designed to be inhabited and eventually to be lived in. The most dominant imaginaries of the industrialist past and late capitalist present have been most finely attuned to expanding the influence of colonial, capitalist, and neoliberal priorities and imperatives. One of the consequences associated with the circulation of these dominant imaginaries has been the marginalization and diminishment of other modes of representation that illuminate alternative ways of living that run counter to these powerful tools of worldmaking.

DMI lays the groundwork to examine the power and limitations of both dominant and marginalized imaginaries, suggesting that the work imaginaries perform is ongoing, longstanding, and deeply engrained in broader historical, political, and geographical currents. As such, this book offers a more speculative, albeit theoretically- and conceptually- engaged discussion surrounding the future viability and vitality of decolonial media imaginaries as instruments for decolonial worldbuilding.