7/17/2019 Trilogy

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The Matrix trilogy is a modern day titanomachia in which thereplacement of generations of titans, gods and semi-gods, or hardware,software and wetware, tests the relations between the humans and thenonhumans. The supremacy of the humans and the machines isgradually replaced by the autonomy, dominance and then evenanarchy of software. In this process, the function of the Matrix as aplace populated by different human and nonhuman agents slowlytransforms from the issues of colonization to the creation of a newcollective. This essay discusses these emancipatory and posthumanistaspects of the Matrix trilogy in relation to posthumanist theory andearlier attempts to speak of active nonhumanity,such as myths andfables. New forms of alterity to humans lead to the emergence of anew and open system, a more complex collective and society. Themost important exploration of the posthuman alterity and the mostsignificant forms of hybrids today is software and programminglanguages. Software brings together new heterogeneous elements inour world, as well as in the Matrix, in order to create a different andmore complex society. It translates and enables interaction betweendifferent and even incompatible worldsof humans and machines,but also between myth, movie and posthumanist theory.Our Jerusalem is made up of software, cities of God, bailiwicks of the Word,megalopolises of language exchanges. We are making ready for the kingdomof the spirit, the celestial Jerusalem or a classless society.Wait, then, for the end of history to see the realization of