QUANTUM SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ONTOLOGY OF THE EMPTY SET

Authors

  • Roy Alfaro Vargas Investigador independiente, Costa Rica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15359/praxis.76.6

Keywords:

filosofía, estudios culturales marxistas, novum, física, neoliberalismo

Abstract

This article analyzes the relation between science fiction and the ontology of set theory, as a means to access to some diegetic process of science fiction genre and its connection with some social and economic phenomena. Also, it is set up a link among the here so-called quantum science fiction, string theory and the proposals by John Rieder, linked to the aesthetic implementation of the ontology of void set, in the context of some ideas developed by Alain Badiou, into this kind of cultural production.

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2017-11-07

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QUANTUM SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ONTOLOGY OF THE EMPTY SET. (2017). Praxis, 76, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.15359/praxis.76.6

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QUANTUM SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ONTOLOGY OF THE EMPTY SET. (2017). Praxis, 76, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.15359/praxis.76.6