What might follow from the claim that imagination is central to the practice of going on strike, or more concretely, that striking itself is a form of imagination? Using Ariella Azoulay’s writing on Potential History as a catalyst, in this virtual event the artist-theorist Ian Alan Paul will present their work as a means of thinking through the imagination of the strike, positing an imaginative commons, and examining how artists, scholars, and activists might object to and withdraw from the inheritances of imperial violence that shape our practices, knowledges, desires, imaginations, and dreams.