Abstract

Against traditional accounts of metaphysics, Bergson develops a radically innovative, dynamic vision, elaborating on the idea of virtual reality as absolute unpredictability: the driver of an insubstantial process of transition, which dismantles all mechanicism and finalism. Hence the idea of life as a «creative evolution» that permeates the entire reality, from the inorganic world to the organic one, and up to the historical world. Although Bergson’s account is debatable from a scientific perspective, its foundational premise – the insubstantial unpredictability of becoming and its ‘elastic’ reticulation – remains a landmark contribution, not only on an ontological level but also in the realm of science, particularly in contemporary bio-evolutionism. As the article will show, this contribution has significant political implications - hitherto marginalised by the critical literature.