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Two Meditations on Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction Studies, 1986
Lem’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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Cybernetic Futures: Stanislaw Lem, Summa Technologiae

Technology and Culture, 2014
This 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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Gendering the Robot: Stanislaw Lem’s “The Mask”

Science Fiction Studies, 1992
In fictional texts, the issue of artificial intelligence has brought to the fore the question of human consciousness. Androids, cyborgs, and robots prompt us to ask whether machines could manifest consciousness and whether we could in fact be replaced by our creations.
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Lem, Stanislaw: L'invincible (Niezwyciezonyii)

1992
Analisi de "L'invincibile" di Lem.
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Of Games with the Universe: Preconceptions of Science in Stanislaw Lem's "The Invincible"

Contemporary Literature, 1994
odological, or, more generally, literary and speculative, specifics of the genre with which his name is synonymous. The narrative self-awareness of Lem's fiction, prominent at all stages of his career, is often mediated through an examination of cultural and linguistic interpretive problems that reflect on the role and meaning of semantic models in ...
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Über Stanislaw Lem

The Slavic and East European Journal, 1982
Halina Stephan, Werner Berthel
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Lem, Stanislaw: Solaris (Solaris)

1992
Analisi dei contenuti filosofici del romanzo Solaris di ...
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Sfida al pianeta di Anna Rinonapoli: Intertestualità tra fantascienza ecologica, Stanislaw Lem e Dante

Forum Italicum, 2021
Elio Baldi
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The Cosmic Carnival of Stanislaw Lem

World Literature Today, 1982
T. J. Lewis, Stanislaw Lem, Michael Kandel   +2 more
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An Interview with Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction Studies, 1983
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