Paracosm
A paracosm is a richly detailed imaginary world.
Paracosms are commonly understood to originate in childhood and to have one or more creators.
The creator of a paracosm forms a complex, deeply felt relationship with this subjective universe, which may include real or fictional characters, rules, and conventions.
A paracosm typically has its own geography, history, and sometimes even language.
It is an experience that often begins in childhood and unfolds over a long period of time — months or even years — as a sophisticated “reality” that can persist into adulthood.
Further reading:
Worldplay as a cognitive strategy
“Now I see why my teachers here in Castalia emphasize modeling a hypothetical place or system (playing at a world, building a paracosm). Because it: * serves as a cognitive strategy/booster for exploration, learning, and creation/work across an entire lifetime, * cultivates useful factors through which you acquire a network
Peter
Hopepunk
Hopepunk is a subgenre of speculative/science fiction tied to resistance, using the fictional worlds to encourage resistance by showing alternatives to the systems we have now. Punk = “fight the man” + hope = “we deserve a better world”. About A body of imagined worlds which are positive but not utopias, because
Peter
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Writing in 1897, Ida Farr Nelson remembered the last decade of family life in rural Goshen, New Hampshire, with happiness. Her sons Elmer, Arthur, and…
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