Perfect Organism: Cosmic Horror & Sci Fi Cinema as Grimoires for the Space Age Witch with Sasha Ravitch

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In 21st Century Occulture we have watched “folk” become synonymous with “ancient” and “ancestral”, and so we have witnessed a revival of priority to what-was, as opposed to what-is-becoming. Far from puerile and reckless fantasies, the Cosmic Horror and Science Fiction Cinema of the 20th and 21st Century outstretch their tentacles toward a new definition of folk witch – a Monstrous Other unafraid of existing in their Space Age civilization, and liberated from the popular neo-phobia. What can Blade Runner teach us about being more human than human – so human we become inhuman? What can Videodrome and Crimes of the Future communicate about the way the witch body adapts to environmental and social crises and scarcity? What does Event Horizon elucidate about animism and possession with machinic intelligences? What can Hellraiser show…