Inner Experience - Radical vs. Reactionary Magic: A Case for Magical Realism

This is your Inner Experience, and today we’re joined by Eden,
editor-in-chief over at the HeavyBlogisHeavy and cohost of the
Death//Sentence Podcast to discuss the theory, phenomenology, and
fictional contours of Magic Realism as an abundance of everyday
meaning. For this we read Eden’s essay 'On The Radical Escapism
of Magic Realism, or, How to Become a God in Late Capitalism',
looking at paradigmatic cases of magical realist fiction as a
framework to explore everything from knowledge production to
technology and the role of ideology in maintaining cultural
hegemony.  Join us as we explore the modes of the magical
imagination. In the discussion: Jack Vance, Gary Gygax, Ursula K.
Le Guin, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Hegel, James Hillman, J.R.R.
Tolkien and more.

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