Tag: Reality

The "memetic contagion" in the metropolitan folklore of Danilo Arona

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A multifaceted author whose interests range from film criticism to fiction to non-fiction dedicated to alternative realities, Danilo Arona has become the singer of a particular and very personal declination of horror and weird that has its roots in the Italian context. In his essay "Media Possession", Arona wonders if it is possible that certain media, especially audiovisual ones, are capable of provoking in predisposed subjects a temporary cancellation of conscience whose place is taken by "something else", in a nutshell what in other places, times and cultures would have been called possession.

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Spiritual autobiography

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The transcription of two long interviews released in 1969 and 1971, as well as three articles published in "Ur", integrate and complete the autobiographical picture of Julius Evola, which the Roman philosopher had already exhibited in his 1963 work "The path of cinnabar". In the texts collected here, Evola ranges with great ease from youthful readings to mathematics studies, from futurism to Dadaism, from his relations with GuΓ©non to small portraits of famous people with whom he was in friendly relations, such as Marinetti and Ezra Pound.

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Reality, illusion, magic and witchcraft: the "uncanny" in ETA Hoffmann's "Nocturnes" (II)

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After the analysis of "The Sandman", the treatment of the second part of our essay on ETA Hoffmann focuses on other "Nocturnes" in which the previously anticipated 'disturbing' themes are treated, and also other more specifically 'demonic-witches' themes.

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Arthur Machen and the awakening of the Great God Pan

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The recent reprint of Arthur Machen's "folk horror" masterpiece allows us to shed light on one of the most fascinating phenomena of "pagan rebirth" in the modern West: the awakening of the Great God Pan in Victorian England, at the turn of the 800th century. and the '900.

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