This course reframes the idea of hope through radical enunciations of the imagination. By drawing on works from postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis, the course offers a way to think about the aesthetic as it relates to the capacity to compose "otherwise possibilities" (Crawley, in excess of the terms of liberal humanism. The imagination's radical potential for an 'otherwise' will be explored through various concepts such as the "not yet conscious" (Munoz), queer archives, curiosity, and play.