Iride and Laputa: a Few Lines of Research

This introductory presentation outlines the renewed editorial orientation of «Iride » in response to the profound historical, political, technological, and cultural transfonnations shaping the contemporary world. Revisiting the Platonic motif of wonder as the origin of philosophy, the text argues that critical thought today must also resist abstraction, specialization, and detachment from lived experience. The journal reaffirms its vocation as an open and plural space for philosophical inquiry, committed to dialogue across disciplines and theoretical traditions rather than adherence to fixed schools of thought. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between philosophical reflection and public debate, especially in confronting crises such as authoritarianism, technocapitalism, ecological collapse, war, inequality, and transformations of subjectivity. The essay presents philosophy as a practice of critical orientation capable of interrogating the implicit assumptions of contemporary forms of life and power. It also envisions the journal as a collaborative research community fostering exchange among philosophy, social sciences, political theory, aesthetics, and critical theory. Finally, the text introduces the themes explored in the issue, including war, capitalism, embodiment, artificial intelligence, urban experience, and experimental fonns of philosophical practice, reaffimting the enduring relevance of critical philosophy in the present.