What does ecological crisis do to the political imagination and how do political imaginaries construct crisis? Moments of crisis can dislocate social reality, lay bare the contingency of sedimented ideas and structures and open possibilities for radical change. It is precisely through the puncturing of normality, that it becomes possible to notice what has become normalised, and to imagine how it might be different. Crisis can be understood as a dislocation of social reality that inevitably reveals the contingency of any social order, and provokes a struggle over the attempt to mend that dislocation. This paper attends to the imaginaries of ecological crisis that emerge to suture such moments and offers a typology of three distinct imaginaries that construct crisis in very different ways. The imaginary of conspiracy constructs crisis as an elite plot. The imaginary of control, constructs crisis as a socio-technological failure that can be solved through adjustment of the prevailing order. The imaginary of catastrophe, constructs crisis as a singular global event. All three imaginaries threaten to depoliticize climate change by undermining contingency and plurality and suturing the possibility for seeking alternatives. Drawing from Lacanian and Laclauian theory as well as critical reflections on crisis and imaginaries, this paper argues for a wariness of imaginaries of crisis that undo the radical potential of crisis dislocation.