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

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Feb 19, 2022

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Magic Realism as a Modifier

Magic realism is a modifier, not just a genre, that can cross media and art forms.
It creates a mode of imagination that relates to reality differently, blending the magical with the everyday.

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High Magic vs. Magic Realism

High magic is elitist, requiring rare knowledge and costly practices inaccessible to most.
Magic realism is folkish and inclusive, rooted in everyday folklore accessible to everyone.

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Dialectic of Power in Magic

The master-servant dialectic reveals that the worker who uses tools holds real power over the master.
Magic realism shows that true power lies in connection and understanding, not domination or control.

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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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