What is it to rethink the unthinkable? It is not to think of those things and topics so horrendous or socially unacceptable that they must be avoided; the “unthinkable”. If anything is clear today, we live in a world where the unthinkable is now being thought and acted.
To rethink the unthinkable is to explore the nuance and complexity of topics long since deemed to be settled and understood — “let’s move on” — through a dialogue within oneself and others (thinking!) about what is “[i]mpossible to imagine; inconceivable”. Doing so it to challenge those assumptions that have dulled our individual and collective thinking as such, which bury the richness of possibilities considered at the time, and relevant today.
To rethink and unthinkable is to make the unthinkable thinkable, so that the rich possibilities now lost to definitions can be reopened to a future.