The Matrix film saga stimulated a wave of armchair philosophers who saw in it a story of almost mystical depths, a metaphysics renewed with the motifs of postmodernity. It is true that the matrix of Matrix is metaphysical, but it is neither new nor does it engage with the heights of ontology, Western or Eastern. These films basically copy the … Read more →
It is said that a certain film director, or a certain critic, used to say that Star Wars was a western with the setting changed. From the dusty plains we moved to the immensities of space, from the Indians to the Martians, and so on. There is in fact a genre called space western that places cowboys of the West … Read more →
On Chronicle of the Stellar Bridges To define science fiction with any rigour, we need a conception not only of science but also of technology — because what these stories most often present is a display of fabulous devices whose theoretical foundations are left implicit. Here we will draw on the following text by Gustavo Bueno (1924–2016), a Spanish philosopher … Read more →