Diana Walsh Pasulka Interview : Part II
Andre Silva Andre Silva

Diana Walsh Pasulka Interview : Part II

Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka to discuss some fascinating developments around the topic of UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) within the cultural sphere. The concept of UAPs might be more familiar to most under a previous term, UFOs (though the UFO term doesn’t capture the full spectrum of the phenomena).

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Diana Walsh Pasulka Interview : Part I
Andre Silva Andre Silva

Diana Walsh Pasulka Interview : Part I

Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka to discuss some fascinating developments around the topic of UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) within the cultural sphere. The concept of UAPs might be more familiar to most under a previous term, UFOs (though the UFO term doesn’t capture the full spectrum of the phenomena).

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Neither Believing nor Disbelieving: Impossible Futures, Conspiracy Theories, Aliens, and More: Part III
Andre Silva Andre Silva

Neither Believing nor Disbelieving: Impossible Futures, Conspiracy Theories, Aliens, and More: Part III

December 21, 2012 - the end date of the 5,126-year Mayan long count calendar. Planetary destruction of a cosmic new age? As modern, non-Mayans, with little to no understanding of the Mayan culture, cosmology, and concept of time, some of us scoffed, some of us were were perhaps disappointed, and I’ll venture to guess most of us paid little attention when this date passed and delivered neither of the above outcomes.

. . . Then again, the last ten years have been freakishly weird. I have playfully speculated to a few that the world as we knew it really did end and we’re in some surreal alternate timeline.

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