(Science) Fiction, Ecosophical Apparatus and Skizoid Machines: Animism, Vitalism and Machinism as a Way to Rearticulate the Need to Confront the Unknown in a Contradictory Manner

摘要

We are immersed in a period that is vibrating,2 but ultimately lacking momentum. Since the 1960s, time's arrow has lacked a definite course. Unsure which way to go, it has vascillated between the moral conservatism of the baby boomers and the forward thrust of Gucci-style consumption.rnLeaving behind its Galilean scrutinising of the future, an exploration of inaccessible worlds that only Science (fiction) from the heights of its certitude could drive, Science {fiction) has slipped into the meanders of our digital society. The false footsteps of Bibendum (the Michelin tyre man) in the dirty dust of the moon that day in July 1969 marked an end to our entropic flights of fancy.