Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being in Person

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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.”

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Others, such as Weiss and Matthew Roberts, a Naval cryptologist, experienced seeing fast-moving objects in the sky at other points in time — Roberts talks about the Gimbal event from 2015, radar footage of which was released to the media. Field is also a child of the 90s so clubbing and dance music looms large, and in his book he talks of clubbing as a kind of pilgrimage: “A journey that takes us out of the confines of ordinary society and our everyday lives, enabling us to experience a collective joy in the temporary community.”

That experience, he says, helped smooth the journey from thinking about how we meet each other in the context of art to thinking about the way we meet each other in the world. “It dawned on me that the thread was the idea of the encounter – everything I was making was about trying to create opportunities for people to meet each other.” Encounters is a four-part docuseries, directed by Yon Motskin, that examines different cases where people saw unexplained phenomena, like strange lights, alien spaceships, or even aliens themselves, and how those sightings were dismissed by both the federal government and the people in their lives who didn’t experience the phenomena firsthand. ENCOUNTERS: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

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That word empathy again. “Encounters force empathy,” he says. “All it takes to reimagine and negotiate your relationship to the people in the world around you is a bit of a different quality of focus – empathy – and a bit more care. Take care how you move through the world and pay close attention to the details of the interactions you’re having.” Or the ones you’re avoiding. How 'The Buccaneers' Crafted Josie Totah and Mia Threapleton’s "Joyful" Queer Romance: "Never Even a Discussion"