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PERCEPTION AND SPEED
 

Maria Carolina dos Santos Rocha, Master Philosophy/Sociology - Porto Alegre, Brazil

This article is centered on the Washowski brothers' film trilogy "The Matrix". The concepts of dromology - discourse on velocity - and that of kinematics - where the elements of motion are determined in Physics - will reveal new paths into our questioning.
The impact of velocity in the optic-eletronical 'vision machines' seem to fascinate, however inebriate human perception in disembodied life and charts proposed by the cathodic screen.
Could these different versions of the The Matrix be no more than steps in the morphing of a complex well-being configuration in a model of post-human desire? In this phase of cyber-man splendor, is it possible to propose an alternative which takes into consideration a new exercise of human freedom as well as a choice to subdue suffering in a dystopian - non-existing - place of Artificial Intelligence?

Key words: Matrix - velocity - perception - mouvement- 'machines-of-vision"-dromology -kinematics - 'trajectivity'- generations of the real - artificial intelligence

 
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