Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction by Meillassoux Quentin

Author:Meillassoux, Quentin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2015-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

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So it seems that extro-science fiction can become a full-fledged genre, because it has at its disposal various procedures capable of supporting a narration despite the ambient disorder of the configured world, and above all has a real prototype that is consistent, before its time, with the requirements we have prescribed. But couldn’t this genre go beyond the honorable but limited interest of adolescent fiction or adventure novels? It seems to me that we can go further: starting from traditional science fiction, we can decompose it by tilting the world toward extro-science and pursuing this enterprise of degradation toward a less and less inhabitable world, making the tale itself progressively impossible, until we isolate certain lives that are tightened around their own flow in the midst of gaps. Life mentally experiences itself without science and, in this ever more accentuated divergence, perhaps discovers something unprecedented about itself or about science. An eidetic variation pushed to the point of suffocation, self-experience in a non-experienceable world. A precarious intensity would plunge infinitely into its pure solitude, with only an environment of rubble in which to explore the truth of a worldless existence.

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