If climate crisis is (at least partially) the 'crisis of imagination' (Amitav Gosh), then how can we cure our impaired imagination? What is the relationship between our mental health and our ability to produce new imaginaries and question the old ones? How does the daunting feeling of ongoing ecological crisis shape new forms of anxiety? What can be counterposed to the totality of Western medicalization? Can Magic, as an alternative system of thinking-of-world, help and be used for the ‘therapy’ of reality and our perception of it? What are the ways magical thinking is disabled by Western science and how can we reclaim it? These and many more questions we will discuss in our post-new-year almost-therapeutic seminar. On the agenda this time: comforting cookies and tea, watching films by Menna Laura Meijer and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, doing a bit of exercises on magical thinking.

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