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.

Fantastic literature, provided that all literature in its totality does not aspire to the fantastic, is a grandiose secular ceremony, a silent rite that favors the encounter with the radically other (what for Rudolf Otto is an area of โ€‹โ€‹relevance to religion), a vehicle of radical estrangement, the way and method of the paradoxical, of a different psychic logic (and not reducible to discursive logic) which can break into the daily prison like a mysterious breach in the wall of our beliefs. The fantastic is a psychedelic that opens up to extraordinary experiences starting from a small element out of place, something wrong (as in Time out of Joint by PK Dick) or by means of a violent rupture of the worldly plan (such as that caused by the inhalation of Lovecraftian cosmic horror).

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