The End of Imagination?

Bourgeois imagination having been the means to re-humanize. Thus:

In conditions where the object takes precedence over human subjects, the imagined object - the art object - has been the particular instrument for retrieving the supremacy of the human over objects in general. Although its overall role has been to mediate between contradictory aspects of social reality, and thus it has served to reproduce 'active' objects and the de-activated people who actively made them, for as long as we are appreciating it, the art object reverses the subordination of people to things. But we only continue to appreciate it for as long as it shows us something new. And 'imagination' is what we call the artist's capacity to come up with a new object that can retain our interest. Thus the artistic imagination has been called upon to both reproduce the dynamic character of capitalist innovation, but also to reverse its dehumanising impact. Imagination brings the human back in; and its humanising effect is not confined to scenarios with active human beings featured in them. Humanization occurs even in the process of artistic, imaginative objectification.

But what of the imagination in a context where alienated subjectivity is the norm, rather than alienated objectification? If it is subjectively harder to be imaginative in these conditions, perhaps it is objectively so, also.