{"id":3723,"date":"2026-02-19T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:09:37","slug":"on-the-impossibility-of-narrating-mediation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/en\/sobre-la-imposibilidad-de-narrar-la-mediacion\/","title":{"rendered":"On the impossibility of narrating mediation"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a film of dubious cinematic quality that I often think of when I imagine the relationship between what happens in a mediation process and what is told about what happens. It is Contact<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this 1997 film, Dr. Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster) is a scientist who has an extraordinary experience of contact with an extraterrestrial civilisation after travelling in a machine built from a signal received from space. However, when she returns, to outside observers the event lasts only a few seconds and there is no direct evidence to confirm her account. Although Arroway claims to have been out for many hours, his recordings show only a garbled signal, a kind of noise shower with no recognisable images. This absence of visible evidence casts doubt on her testimony and puts her at odds with the conflict between first-person truth and the impossibility of scientifically demonstrating it<\/strong>, despite the fact that the technical data suggests that something inexplicable happened. As is revealed in one of the final scenes: that broken recording lasted not seconds, but a total of 18 hours...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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