Month: February 2021
"True Detective: conspiracy and TV series" (The horizon of events, Border Nights)
Thursday evening at 21 pm we will speak as guests in the video column "The horizon of events" of the "Border Nights" channel to present "Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detective "(Mimesis, 30) and discussing the centrality of the 'conspiratorial' and 'occult' element in other television series, including historical ones, such as" Twin Peaks "," X-Files "and our own" Night Voices ".
Muses, sirens and black stars: the cruel tales of Carlo H. De 'Medici
In the panorama of Italian fantastic and supernatural fiction, a prominent place must be reserved for Carlo H. De 'Medici, whose "black" stories, written in the 20s, were inspired by both the psychological horror of Edgar Allan Poe and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, both from the French decadentist vein. Here we analyze the stories of him contained in the anthology "The cemetery mice", recently reprinted by the types of Cliquot Edizioni.
The esoteric Rilke of the "Sonnets to Orpheus"
Composed in February 1922 as a funeral monument to Wera Ouckama Knoop, a young woman who passed away at the premature age of nineteen, the "Sonnets a Orpheus" by the Austrian poet of Bohemian origin Rainer Maria Rilke still speak to us today, after a century, in the "Language of eternity in which the dead make themselves a gift by nourishing the earth", revealing to us the indissoluble intertwining between death and life.
Giordano Bruno: the bond & the fantastic
421 years after the stake in Campo de 'Fiori, an in-depth study on the premises, contents and implications of Giordano Bruno's magic, which operationally declines the fantastic faculties of man and the profound knowledge of universal psychological dynamics.
Jung and the magical rule over destiny. Interview with Roberto Cecchetti
We interview the philosopher analyst Roberto Cecchetti about the course on Jungian orientation practices that he will hold in March for the Sulfur Society.Β
Dorothy Carrington's dream Corsica
A primitive universe, the Corsican one, splendidly described by Carrington in her βGranite Islandβ. A suspended, rarefied, immobile world, where Christianity has penetrated only superficially and has not affected the profound essence of an atavistic religiosity with shamanic traits, centered on the cult of the Ancestors, on the magical practices of the ecstatic brotherhoods, the MazzΓ¨ri, and on a folklore crystallized over the centuries, which speaks to us of the spirits of the dead and of a ghost procession of the "wild hunt" type led by a mysterious "white lady".
The representation of the "Savage", between taboos and stereotypes: the case of "Cannibal Holocaust"
Disney's recent policy aimed at underlining the problematic nature of minority representations and especially indigenous communities in the last century has raised quite a few criticisms by virtue of the perspective used, which ultimately betrays an ill-concealed Eurocentrism and evident hypocrisy all western in style. The analysis of a controversial and epochal film like "Cannibal Holocaust" by Ruggero Deodato, released in theaters 41 years ago, can help us understand why.
Videoconference: "The fantastic continuum: a conversation on the literary mystery"
Video of the conference held tonight with Mens ex Machina and Psy * Co * Re with the participation of Erik Davies.
