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The reality of fiction in a literary world: on an excerpt from Stanisław Lem’s Solaris
Using an excerpt from Stanisław Lem’s Solaris, this article explores the idea that, in a literary text, a fictional world and the world of physical reality may interact to form such a reality that can paradoxically turn out to be more real than what we ...
Domanskii Yu. V.
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Author Correction: The dynamics of plasmon-induced hot carrier creation in colloidal gold [PDF]
Anna Wach +15 more
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Based on knowledge of their production pathways, and limited discrete observations, a variety of short-lived chemical species are inferred to play active roles in chemical cycling in the sea.
Lina Taenzer +5 more
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Bogie Steering System Improving Alignment of the Urban Railway Vehicle in a Track
Urban rail systems are characterized by low-radius curves which are very problematic to negotiate for modern rail vehicles. There are several inventions developed throughout time to cope with that problem.
Michał PODOLSKI +3 more
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Stanislaw Lem and the Biological Sublime. Biology, Technology, Science Fiction
This article introduces the concept of the biological sublime and argues that it is central to Stanislaw Lem’s science-fictional poetics. The biological sublime is an aesthetic reaction to the monstrous body conceptualized in terms derived from the ...
Elana Gomel
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Bilim-Kurgu Sinemasında Şiirsel Bir Deneme: Solaris
Polonyalı bilim kurgu yazarı Stanislaw Lem’in 1961’de yazdığı romandan uyarlama olan “Solaris”, Solaris gezegeninin yörüngesindeki bir uzay istasyonunda yaşanan doğaüstü olayların ve insanların hayalleriyle vicdan muhasebeleri üzerine bir bilim-kurgu ...
Mehmet Utku Şentürk
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Philosophical Subtexts of the Science Fiction Genre: Andrei Tarkovsky [PDF]
This article examines the acute problem in 20th-century art — how to create a work of art capable of engaging a mass audience without sacrificing the meaning conceived by the artist — through the lens of two films by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky ...
Khrenov Nikolai A.
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Revisiting Solaris: Encountering Otherness and the Limits of Representation
One of the core themes of Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Solaris is the encounter with radical otherness. The ocean planet being studied by scientists from earth is usually interpreted as a representation of radical otherness, which eludes human efforts of ...
Monika Anna Slawkowska-Rode +1 more
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The paper analyses selected philosophical aspects of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris. I argue that there is an interesting similarity between the history of “Solarist studies” –the fictional scientific discipline depicted by Lem and cognitive science.
Paweł Grabarczyk
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The HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS) is the core instrument of the Climate Absolute Refractivity and Reflectance Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder (CPF) mission and is currently scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station (
Zhipeng Wang +3 more
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