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In the early 1990s, Lem met with the literary critic and scholar Peter Swirski for a series of extensive interviews, published together with other critical materials and translations as A Stanislaw Lem Reader (1997). In these interviews Lem speaks about a range of issues he rarely discussed previously.
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Nov 4, 2014 · In his latest masterpiece, Peter Swirski explores three core issues: computer written literature, machine thinking, and cultural evolution. Inspired by the writings of Stanislaw Lem, Alan Turing, and Charles Darwin—which roughly corresponds to the tripartite division of the book—and taking into consideration the latest developments in computer sciences and robotics, his main claim is that ...
Sep 1, 2014 · Abstract. In Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel, Peter Swirski brings a treasury of unknown elements of Lem's life and literary legacy to light.The Polish science fiction writer died in 2006, but in this book his voice is heard afresh for the benefit of those who believe that, with his passing, quintessential element of twentieth-century artistic and intellectual heritage has ...
The Montréal Review, January 2017. *** Back in the year two thousand, Peter Swirski took his interdisciplinary approach to Edgar Allan Poe and Stanislaw Lem. Rather than gushing over their artistic talent, Swirski focused on the extent to which these literary giants stepped into fields usually classified as ‘sciences only’.
Hence the two totally contradictory images of the system: a clay-legged colossus prone to crumble under the first punch and a perfect embodiment of History as an ineluctable, if perhaps nightmarish, destiny — a Baal, 16 an Absolute, a secret, a this-worldly mystery stripped of extrahistorical meaning (and the historical meaning of which was equally impenetrable). Victimized by faith, dear ...
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Feb 23, 2016 · Abstract. Stanislaw Lem, Philosopher of the Future is a revealing and instructive guide to the philosophical fiction of Stanislaw Lem. Throughout the book, Swirski builds a framework of philosophical and scientific concepts within which Lem’s works should be read, in particular its most significant aspect: Lem’s unyielding concern for knowledge supported by his conviction that literature ...
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