• Guest Speaker: Annie Ling
  • References:
    • Jeremy O’Harris - Yell: A Documentary of My Time Here

What are Liminal Spaces?

• "liminal" is derived from the Latin word limen, meaning "threshold"
• It is standing at the threshold between one space and another—a transitional space. This can be physical, like a hallway, or psychological, when you are beyond a comfort zone and about to jump into something new. It is the space between your conscious and unconscious.
• In magic and witchcraft, liminal spaces are the boundary between our world and the spirit world. Halloween/Samhain/Dia de los Muertos is a holiday about liminal space.
• Aesthetics Wiki on Liminal Spaces
• Liminal Space Twitter
• This article about liminal spaces feels like a liminal space
• strangely familiar places with unnerving music
• Russian Liminal Spaces

Liminal Spaces, More Broadly

• the impossible becoming possible
• "The brain is a context machine"
• "things are designed to be used by people, and if you remove the people it is unsettling"
• Liminal spaces perhaps feel cursed because the literal ghosts of humans are there
• Lacan and the Real, Alfred Whitehead and Process Philosophy (ephemeral nature of the liminal space — it doesn't stay still in time/space/inner life), folklore and mythology's archetypes of the impossible / high strangeness at the thresholds;
• Liminal theology, e.g. Earthseed novels (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents), “God is Change”
• Growth and Fixed Mindset