Are robots like Bender or Calculon responsible for their (terrible) actions like humans?
When Zoidberg eats – and burps – the Earth flag in front of its astonished inhabitants, is he just freely expressing himself?
Is it true love that Leela feels for Fry, when the boy's body is invaded by worms that make him smarter and sexier?
When he created the animated series Futurama, Matt Groening – the brilliant father of The Simpsons – only wanted to poke fun at the conventions of the science fiction genre. Instead, he ended up creating a complex universe governed by its own rules. But the sidereal adventures of humans, robots, aliens and giant lobsters who star in the successful cartoon offer formidable insights into our world, which is certainly not the only possible one. The series, like this book, is a hilarious and rigorous invitation to take galactic journeys within ourselves, to try to answer the most current and eternal philosophical questions there are.
