Fiction and reality are no longer separated. On the contrary, they are interperent, contaminate. By the complocistic and other “Fake News” theses, by the strength of the dystopias too, which convects very real fears.
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In the world according to the appearance of COVID-19, where the news sometimes gives the impression of overtaking the craziest predictions of science fiction stories, the border between fiction and reality seems more in more porous. The pandemic has echoed in a troubling way to the film contagion, Steven Soderbergh, released in 2011. In this feature film, the MEV-1 virus leaves the virgin forest through a pork, to upset the march. of the world and make wins of anticipated eye on our daily lives. Hence this diffuse feeling that, more and more often, fiction ends up being realized, as if it had become matrix. Would she have accessed a new status?
Even before the COVID-19 epidemic, an OpinionWay survey for FOB Paris published in October 2019 taught us that 74% of our fellow citizens felt today in the middle of science fiction. Such vapors in the alleys of Blade Runner, flat on our everyday life a veil of bad dystopia. “With the rise of comploise and” Fake News “, the truth is increasingly threatened to be considered as a lie. In mirrored, we give more and more importance to the fictions in our perception of the world” , points out Anne Besson, professor of literature at the University of Artois and the Author of the powers of the enchantment, political uses of fantasy and science fiction (vendemiaire, 228 pages, 21 euros).
While Mark Zuckerberg aims to tip over the methavers, turning our social lives into a remake of the Avatar film, the border between realistic aesthetics and fictional aesthetics seems more and more thin, as stresses. Researcher Marine Mall in the collective book The reality of fiction 2 (The Harmattan, 196 pages, 20.50 euros): “Today, and especially on the themes relating to new technologies, the factual writings and the scriptures Fictions are more and more similar, to the point of sometimes producing new hybrid scriptures. Speeches on technoscience and technological advances sometimes echo elements that anticipation fiction had predicted in the past – we can think of the George Orwell, 1984. As for the fiction, they are more and more realistic, and the dystopias convene real collective fears. For example, the Black Mirror series looks aujo Today has become a reading grid and understanding of the real world. “
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