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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 Century into the 20th Century postwar period, when it collapsed in the wake of the development of the atomic bomb.

His blog at Liminosity.space is currently under development and will launch sometime before Halloween 2024.

Marco visits with Talking Weird to discuss his fascinating concept of the "technological imaginal" and how it generated the modern concept of flying saucers and UFOs. This is one of the most fascinating episodes of the year, loaded with original and startling ideas.