Social Dreaming, Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect

Julian Manley is a Research Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

• Foreword by Lita Crociani-Windland.- PART I Social dreaming: origins, history and practice.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2. A brief history and background of social dreaming.- Chapter 3. From group relations to the social dreaming matrix.- PART II Deleuzian approaches.- Chapter 4. Social Dreaming in a New Key.- Chapter 5. From thinking linearity to feeling non-linearity.- Chapter 6. The social dreaming collage and the Deleuzian rhizome.- Chapter 7. Becoming dream: the dis-embodied/ embodied experience of social dreaming.- PART III From data to new thinking.- Chapter 8. Processing social dreaming material as data.- Chapter 9. A Case Study: Slow Violence: Art, climate change and social dreaming.- Chapter 10. Combining the internal virtual of the matrix dream space with external reality: Lessons of chaos and complexity.- Chapter 11. Expressing the virtual and the image-affect: The problem of language.- Chapter 12 Disembodiment, embodiment and the image-affect.- Chapter 13 A noteon post- Lawrence research on social dreaming.- Chapter 14 Using the virtual for the real.- Chapter 15 The final plateau.- Concluding.

“There is no doubt this is an essential book in this realm of psychosocial studies. For any social dreamer, this book has immense value as a transitional space to rethink some of the dearly held principles in social dreaming. ... This book is, therefore, an essential guide towards a reframing of theoretical perspectives or even new theories for the future of social dreaming.” (Angela Eden, Organisational & Social Dynamics, Vol. 19 (2), 2019)