The Best of Impossible Worlds
Original title: El millor dels mons impossibles
A fascinating essay on a rising phenomenon— the multiverse of reality shifting.
During the pandemic, thousands of Gen Z users popularized reality shifting, a viral practice involving immersive mental journeys to alternate worlds where they claimed to interact with fictional characters and live out fully real life in a parallel universe. The most delirious multiverses and the deepest layers of social media parade through these pages, where figures like Philip K. Dick, Mark Fisher, and Fredric Jameson intersect with the fandoms of Harry Potter and Marvel. With clarity and flair, Gabriel Ventura explores this cultural phenomenon to examine how a new generation is redrawing the boundaries of identity, perception, and reality.
«A suspension of judgment toward this community—without deciding whether they hold a promise of redemption or are simply a group of the deluded» —Xavier Nueno
«Ventura succeeds in connecting this method of escape—so typical of capitalist realism—with a panoramic perspective grounded in the quantum theory of the multiverse» —Jordi Nopca, ARA
A fascinating essay on a rising phenomenon— the multiverse of reality shifting.
During the pandemic, thousands of Gen Z users popularized reality shifting, a viral practice involving immersive mental journeys to alternate worlds where they claimed to interact with fictional characters and live out fully real life in a parallel universe. The most delirious multiverses and the deepest layers of social media parade through these pages, where figures like Philip K. Dick, Mark Fisher, and Fredric Jameson intersect with the fandoms of Harry Potter and Marvel. With clarity and flair, Gabriel Ventura explores this cultural phenomenon to examine how a new generation is redrawing the boundaries of identity, perception, and reality.
«A suspension of judgment toward this community—without deciding whether they hold a promise of redemption or are simply a group of the deluded» —Xavier Nueno
«Ventura succeeds in connecting this method of escape—so typical of capitalist realism—with a panoramic perspective grounded in the quantum theory of the multiverse» —Jordi Nopca, ARA
