The transmedial experience according to its discursive consonances

The “cultural convergence” diagnosed by Henry Jenkins proposes the existence of certain texts constructed through different media and creative manifestations, contents with configuration processes that require attention beyond any technological determinism. This paper offers a reflection on the nature of the transmedial experience from the analysis of three concepts whose property – transmediality – shares the same discursive context and, therefore, certain semantic consonances: transaesthetics, as a theoretical perspective emerged from the dissolution of art in other spheres of social reality; transmodernity, a new cultural period beyond postmodern relativism; and transpersonality, as a psychological method for self-realisation. In order to do that, some of the most prominent authors in each case are recalled (Jean Baudrillard, Rosa María Rodríguez Magda and James Fadiman, respectively), the main ideas of which are synthetically exposed. This process leads to the confirmation that the trans- prefix refers effectively to a number of transformations that occurred in recent decades in the fields of art, culture and personality and that directly affect the practice of transmedial experience. All this is channelled through five questions that open up new possible ways of research.