Vallee and John Keel are the twinned godheads...
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Replying to @simon_sellars @LapsusLima
Simon, do you know anything about Cabinet RS/33?
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @LapsusLima
No, but I just did a quick Google... very interesting. Mussolini gave a speech on the likelihood of Martian invasion!
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Replying to @simon_sellars @NegarestaniReza
They still had Martians on the mind back them. I find current general disinterest in aliens—*and* the dominance of the "Ancient Alien" wing—supremely telling of a shift in the contemporary imagination.
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Replying to @LapsusLima @NegarestaniReza
To be honest, the focus on "aliens" is pretty tedious at the best of times. But take that out of the equation, and there are still unexplained phenomena. That's why Keel and Vallee are so great. They don't fall into the trap of SF cliche.
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Replying to @simon_sellars @LapsusLima
I think the early psychoanalysis is the best when it comes to such phenomena. You can either see alien as the registers of cosmological traumas or as expressions of something quite mundane which you can't explain coherently .
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Any story about aliens should be made in the fashion of the collective unconscious or individual consciousness.
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but why? why just treat every surface as a mirror? (one thinks of the limitation of human understanding that Lem's evoked in Solaris)
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Maybe because the monkey mind hasn't evolved far enough to comprehend further out...
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or maybe to ignore the absolute horror, either in the mundane or the cosmological. while there is another path, to "grow" extra organs for extra sensations and "comprehension". Xenogenesis vs. humanist sci-fi
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You don't need extra organs, you need an entire new set of transcendental conditions. The mere addition of sensory apparatus doesn't give you a new world so long as the representations of space and time, and your concepts remain the same.
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What if you think of something like CERN (or better examples that eludes me r.n) as the organs i was talikng about. Every H endeavour for knowledge and expanding its milieu as an extra-organic sensory apparatus. Also, time and space has already changed quite a lot since Kant.
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Replying to @lesoiseauxdumal @NegarestaniReza and
For a blind person, isn't seeing a color for the first time through an exo-organic sensory apparatus a 'new world'? Isn't the squid an alien that already has been put into new non-human lights via our new organs? I realize my argument is ill-equiped but i guess you get my drift.
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