Season 2, Episode 4: Huw Lemmey and Isabel Valley on psychiatry and unknown languages

The second season of Overmorrow’s Library is dedicated to world-building, world-ending, and travel across worlds. Federico Campagna presents a new selection of books that might help us to appreciate the fragility of ‘worlds’, and the art of creating new ones through a particular use of our imagination.

In this episode, Federico Campagna interviews psychiatrist Prof. Isabel Valli from Barcelona University and writer Huw Lemmey (author of ‘Unknown Language’ and ‘Bad Gays’) on the complex relationship between the mind, identity, language, magic and politics.

Image credit: Antidotum tarantulae, a curative musical score from Athanasius Kircher (c. 1660).