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Podcast: Untold Radio Network
Episode: Talking Weird #109 UFOs and the Technological Imaginal with Marco Acevedo
Description: Marco Acevedo is a graphic designer who’s had a life-long fascination with the weird and anomalous. He brings his years of experience in brand identity to his ongoing study of how symbols and archetypes charge moments in cultural history; for the past few years he has focused on “reverse-engineering” the flying saucer archetype. In the process he discovered what he calls the “technological imaginal,” a space where utopian fantasy, speculation and invention flow into one another, where science fiction and scientific progress exist in a symbiotic relationship; he suggests that an American Tech Imaginal flourished from the end of the 19th C...