Federico Campagna argues that “reality” varies with each new era of the world and civilization, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do, think, and imagine. To him, if we can change the common ground that sustains our common sense, the latter adapts with it. These are not utopias or far-flung historical realities, but practices of “world making.”

One morning, Rob Baerenwiese awoke to discover he was no longer among the living. It was a strange sensation, to say the least. In a physical, tingly, sensate sense, he was still very much alive. At least he felt himself to be. But those feelings, in certain circumstances, don’t amount to much in the grand accounting.