Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being in Person

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Yet for better or worse, UFOs have increasingly entered the mainstream in recent months as military whistleblowers and others come forward with accounts that lend credibility to a long stigmatized concept. Modern-day transcendentalist Andy Field weaves reflections on cultural touchstones in celebration of the person-to-person encounter – whether that’s a phone call with a lover, a snowball fight with strangers or a sweaty nightclub dancefloor.’ Ada Calhoun, author of Also A Poet and Why We Can’t Sleep Alyssa Farah Griffin Defends Justin Timberlake Following Britney Spears' Explosive Abortion Claims On 'The View': "They Were Both In A Very Toxic Environment" The idea of empathy runs through the book, but there is also anger. Anger at what he sees as the misuse and misappropriation of our public spaces and therefore our private destinies. At times, it reads like a howl released after years of buildup. Was there a moment of ignition?

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From the queue outside to the dancefloor itself, the experience is communal, joyous. “In these darkened rooms, as we move together, we are teaching ourselves how not to be afraid of one another,” he writes. “Any really good dancefloor is an empathy machine – a place where anonymous people of every possible kind can find a shared rhythm, a collective effervescence.” Stream It Or Skip It: ‘No One Will Save You’ on Hulu, a Wild Thrill Ride in Which Aliens Invade Poor Kaitlyn Dever’s Home One of the things that all of these people have in common is the idea that seeing something that could be from an otherworldly being, whether it’s another planet’s living beings or, in Weiss’s belief, “messengers”, shakes people to their core because of the confirmation that something bigger than themselves actually exists. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix A deeply felt, optimistic take on culture and contemporary life, and the small possibilities for change and transforming human interaction that it can contain if we’re open to its offers.’ Tim Etchells, artistDirected by Yon Motskin, each episode of the series produced by Stephen Spielberg's Amblin Television, Boardwalk Pictures and Vice Studios explores a separate report of a mass sighting in a different part of the world. Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Master Gardener’ on Hulu, Another Subtly Sinister Drama From Master Storyteller Paul Schrader

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Playable on PC, Mobile, and Tablet! (Performs best on PC, although gameplay is manageable on mobile/tablet) Stream It Or Skip It: 'Christmas in Notting Hill' on Hallmark, in Which Soccer, Love, and London Collide In Encounterism, performance artist Andy Field sets out to make our everyday activities – a taxi ride, a trip to the cinema, a visit to the hairdresser, going out for a meal, or a walk in the park – strange again. He does so to highlight the neglected role that public spaces play in allowing us to meet people different from ourselves, and how such encounters are vital for enriching our lives and knitting together the social fabric of our societies. The Gist: In the first episode, a 2008 sighting of bright lights in the Stephenville, TX area is examined. It’s an unusual case because the sighting wasn’t just reported by one or two people, but by hundreds of people at the same time. The people who saw those lights, including businessman Steve Allen and constable Lee Roy Gaitan, were members of the community who weren’t inclined to tell tales about alien sightings, but they both saw what they saw, and both became obsessed with the fact that there might be something out there that was bigger than themselves. Allen admits that his experience got him so involved in finding answers that his marriage and business suffered. UFOs, UAP's, non-human intelligence, whatever we might call it — I didn’t before but now I think it exists," Motskin told Netflix. "It could be non-human intelligence from far away, or from the past or future, or even us from the future. But I believe ‘the phenomenon’, as it’s called, has been around for a long time."