Betwixt and Between. Zones as Liminal and Deterritorialized Spaces
Betwixt and Between. Zones as Liminal and Deterritorialized Spaces

Summary/Abstract: Frequent occult or conspiracy circles long enough—especially those centered around the paranormal and ufology—one begins to notice a trend. UFO sightings or alien abductions, fair folk conducting séances, leprechauns frantically hiding their coveted gold, and other odd occurrences, are seldom happenings found in populated areas. Indeed, for the skeptic, the fact of isolation with a lack of witnesses is the single most powerful weapon in their arsenal. “If such-and-such event really did occur, why are there no witnesses? Why did it happen in the abandoned church? Why do all your sightings happen in the most remote of locations?” she asks. The secluded, hidden locations of these events is not happenstance, however. It is not a tool to explain away anomalies. Rather, these things must occur in secluded, run-down areas because secluded locations are thresholds between the world of appearances and the world of things as they are. They are areas where the supposedly ‘hard,’ ‘natural,’ and ‘immutable’ boundaries of the world break down. They are the wave wracked shores of Kant’s Island of Reason, his terra firma slowly being eroded.

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