Paulo Reis ///

There is more Bergson in Matrix than Matrix in Sergio Prego.

In his reflections on the world, the philosopher Henri Bergson exalts life in its wider sense as a becoming resulting from the necessity of matter, or existing per se. Bergson's thought became central for the phenomenonologists Gaston Bachelard and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Bergsonian essentialism –excepting his l'espirit du temp positivism– provided material for all phenomenologist poetics in its studies of materials, duration, time, memory, behaviour, form, the visible and the invisible and of space. Bergson's thought is initiatic for Bachelardian thought, given that, as the author himself states: "Here space is everything, as time no longer animates memory. Memory –how strange– does not record concrete duration, duration in the Bergsonian sense. We cannot relive abolished durations. We can only think them, think them in the line of an abstract time deprived of any thickness. It is through space, it is in space that we find the beautiful fossils of duration solidified by long permanences. The unconscious remains in the places. Remembrances are immobile, all the more solid when further spaced apart... "