Metaphysics and Fiction about the Worlds Beyond Science

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essay by QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX
illustration by GIANNI OPRANDI

 

According to Gilles Deleuze, true philosophers create new concepts and open new perspectives on the present. QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX is one of them. In this text, he explains his hypothesis of a new kind of science fiction, called “Fiction Beyond Science.” This revolutionary idea challenges the vision of the future: a world no longer controlled by the domination of science.

This text was originally transcribed from a lecture given on May 18, 2006, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris-Ulm). It was first published in French as Métaphysique et fiction des mondes hors-sciences by Aux Forges de Vulcain, Paris, 2012. This shortened version is translated by Sara Sugihara.

I plan to present in this lecture the difference between two kinds of fiction, which are both important from a metaphysical point of view. The two varieties deal with experimental…