There comes a moment when one is confronted by one's ignorance and puzzlement, one's aporia. Aporia arises when meaning grinds to a halt and a step must be taken, even against one's best interest. It is related, on the one hand, to death, the limit condition of being, and, on the other, to truth and knowledge, which one man in antiquity—let's call him Oedipus—could pursue rationally in the realm of the Law-governed city. Today one may still contemplate mortality and pursue truth and knowledge, but the horizon of the inquiry has changed to such an extent that the most pertinent question might not be "what is (my) truth?' but "how will I recognise truth when I come across it?'. Aporia after Oedipus is political, technological, philosophical and ontological and must be addressed in its complexity. Towards this end, the book explores the common ground between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the works of Jean Baudrillard and Bernard Stiegler.This chapter offers an overview of the cultural products discussed in this book: Tron Legacy (Kosninsky 2010), Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Riordan 2010), Welcome to Thebes (Buffini 2010), The Photographers (Koundouros 1998), Prometheus (Scott 2012), and their ancient counterpart, Euripides' Ion. The introduction also offers an outline of the uses of myth and tragedy in contemporary culture and a sketch of the works of Jacques Lacan, Jean Baudrillard, and Bernard Stiegler relevant to this project.