Institut Ramon LLull

During de pandemic reality shifting became popular, a practice leading thousands of young people to move their lives into parallel realities, more or less inspired by fictional universes - such as Harry Potter, Narnia, or Marvel – where they enjoyed a custom-made identity and would interact for hours, days, or months with their idols and characters. This pop simplified version of quantic physics, our author argues, redefined in entertainment products and mystified by general sources of information, offers a pseudoscientific basis for these shifters. The book understands these issues as symptoms of and a way to analyse modern day woes; the
spectral and liminal nature of reality; constant technological mediation; the malleability of identities; the emergence of digital communities which transcend political, cultural, and geographical divisions; transformations in modern day experiences of space and time; the feeling that hope has moved on to parallel universes and that redemption is no longer possible in this world of ours. A surprising essay that reveals a kaleidoscopic view of reality.