Três fragmentos de Shulamith Firestone:

For our analysis we shall define culture in the following way: Culture is
the attempt by man to realize the conceivable in the possible. Man’s
consciousness of himself within his environment distinguishes him
from the lower animals, and turns him into the only animal capable
of culture. This consciousness. his highest faculty, allows him to
project mentally states of being that do not exist at the moment:
Able to constnuct a past and future, he becomes a creature of timea
historian and a prophet. More than this, he can imagine objects and
states of being that have never existed and may never exist in the
real world-he becomes a maker of art. Thus. for example, though
the ancient Greeks did not know how to fly, still they could imagine it.
The myth of Icarus was the formulation in fantasy of their conception
of the state ‘flying’.

These two different responses, the idealistic and the scientific,
do not merely exist simultaneously: there is a dialogue between
the two. The imaginative construction precedes the technological,
though often it does not develop until the technological knowhow is
‘in the air’. For example, the art of science fiction developed, in the
main, only a half-century in advance of, and now coexists with, the
scientific revolution that is transforming it into a reality-for example
(an innocuous one), the moon flight. The phrases ‘way out’, ‘far out’.
‘spaced’, the observation ‘it’s like something out of science fiction’
are common language.

Culture then is the sum of, and the dynamic between. the two
modes through which the mind attempts to transcend the limitations
and contingencies of reality.

In: Robin MacKay e Arvin Avanessian (eds.), #Accelerate# – The Accelerationist Reader (2014)