ABSTRACT
A dancing star should shake off traditional practice and theory. This chapter discusses aspects of Arguments from Imagination for dancing-star practice and theorizing. One such argument appeals to a contradiction between the need for radical imagination in governance and the hostility to radical imagination in traditional practice. The discussion could talk about (again) the excessive catering to the needs of the mid-level manager, and the reluctance to fly higher than the limits of what counts as common sense. The claim in the Arguments from Imagination is not that traditional practice and theory could vanish (see the quote from Daniel Martin, above); it is that the traditional should pass away.
