A Segunda Trilogia da Fundação é um conjunto de romances de FC ambientados no universo ficcional criado por Isaac Asimov. Acabei de reler o primeiro desses volumes, Fundação: o Medo, de Gregory Benford. Os demais são, respectivamente, de Greg Bear e David Brin.
Ficção científica como ponto de partida para pensar história, ciência, religião, arte e futuros possíveis.
quarta-feira, 9 de setembro de 2026
STAR TREK AND THE END OF THE FUTURE
(STAR TREK)² AND THE END OF THE FUTURE
In Philosophy of New Music—a work that discusses the paths taken by European music at the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century—Theodor Adorno, in reference to Stravinsky’s compositions, uses the expression “music squared.” He means music that prefers to manipulate historically established forms through procedures such as quotation, parody, and pastiche.
Something similar has been happening to Star Trek in its transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. A growing part of contemporary Star Trek is no longer simply fiction projecting a future, but fiction recombining the historical forms of Star Trek itself. The musical, black-and-white noir, animation, puppets, the deliberate recreation of 1960s television: all of this suggests a franchise increasingly conscious of itself as an aesthetic repertoire.
The problem—at least as many fans of the series perceive it—is that all these self-references are somehow merely concealing the show’s declining relevance. Studios, producers, writers, and actors are blamed. But here I would like to explore a different hypothesis: that the crisis of Star Trek is not necessarily artistic or creative, but the result of the disappearance of the historical conditions that once made its utopia believable.