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Stanislaw Lem and the Holocaust of Humanism
2014In one of his more savage moods, Stanislaw Lern wrote a short essay called “Cosmology and Science Fiction”, which was first published in the Science-Fiction Studies in 1977. In the essay, he compares SF to pornography, accuses it of being anti-scientific, and advises its readers not to acquaint themselves with any actual science “unless they are ...
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Cybernetic Futures: Stanislaw Lem, Summa Technologiae
Technology and Culture, 2014This essay reviews the English translation of Stanislaw Lem’s book on the philosophy of technology, Summa Technologiae , first published in Polish in 1961. The Summa is a distinctive work of scientific futurology, and the review explores connections between Lem’s thought and the cybernetics of Ross Ashby, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, including Lem’s
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Stanislaw Lem and a Topology of Mind
Science Fiction Studies, 1992In his speculative fiction, Stanislaw Lem explores the boundaries between mind and brain by fabricating alternative paths to consciousness. Lem models other, inorganic, systems of consciousness; we can learn from the coherence of these models by analyzing their structure using current epistemological theories.
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Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel
2014Stanislaw Lem, Peter Swirski
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Rationality and knowledge in complex systems: The case of Stanislaw Lem
Journal of Literary Studies, 1996 Summary The article focuses on two “detective novels” by Stanislaw Lem, analysed in terms of chaos theory, which states that complex systems are not merely disorderly, but can generate a kind of order. Lem's fictions exemplify the failure of rationality to solve problems within the context of infinite networks of random variables.
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Stanislaw Lem’s “Star Diaries”
Science Fiction Studies, 1986Lem’s “Star Diaries” have a special place among his story-cycles, since they span most of his career and reflect his changing concerns. Still, they have a common theme: the presumptuousness of the intellect. The cycle begins in the farcical mode of the Miinchhausen tales, parodying the typical attitudes of Earthlings claiming the status of general ...
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Two Meditations on Stanislaw Lem
Science Fiction Studies, 1986Lem’s fiction depicts the “human element” in two ways. Viewed optimistically (as in The Cyberiad, Solaris, and “The Mask”). human personality is a system sufficiently complex to be unpredictable and autonomous. Viewed pessimistically, the same system of consciousness is fundamentally flawed, since it is doomed to annihilation and enslaved by its ...
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