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THE ART AND SCIENCE OF STANISLAW LEM This page intentionally left blank The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem Edited by Peter Swirski McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston · London · Ithaca © McGill-Queen’s University Press 2006 isbn-13: 978-0-7735-3046-1 isbn-10: 0-7735-3046-0 Legal deposit third quarter 2006 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper This book has been published in cooperation with the Wirth Institute for Australian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (bpidp) for our publishing activities. “Solaris! Solaris. Solaris!” by Peter Swirski was originally published online in Central Europe Review (CER), 8 January 2003. www.Culture.tol.cz/look/CER/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication= 14&NRIssue=43&NrSection=3&NrArticle=8246 “(Un)masking the Agent: Stanislaw Lem’s ‘The Mask’” by N. Katherine Hayles was originally published in My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subject and Literary Texts (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication The art and science of Stanislaw Lem / edited by Peter Swirski. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-7735-3046-1 isbn-10: 0-7735-3046-0 1. Lem, Stanislaw, 1921- – Criticism and interpretation. i. Swirski, Peter, 1963- pg7158.l392a57 2006 891.8'537 c2006-901704-2 Typeset in New Baskerville 10.5/13 by Infoscan Collette, Quebec City This book is dedicated to Earle Waugh and Wacek Osadnik: humanists and pedagogues. This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction: The Man behind the Giant 3 peter swirski 1 Smart Robots 13 stanislaw lem 2 (Un)masking the Agent: Stanislaw Lem’s “The Mask” 22 n. katherine hayles 3 Betrization Is the Worst Solution … with the Exception of All Others 47 peter swirski 4 A Freudian Peek at Lem’s Fiasco 72 michael kandel 5 Summa technologiae – Looking Back and Ahead 81 peter butko 6 Models of Evolution in the Writings of Stanislaw Lem 104 jerzy jarze˛bski 7 Skepticism, Realism, Fallibilism: On Lem’s Epistemological Themes 117 paisley livingston viii Contents 8 Lem, Central Europe, and the Genre of Technological Empire 130 istvan csicsery-ronay 9 Lem on Film 153 krzysztof loska 10 Solaris! Solaris. Solaris? 172 peter swirski Stanislaw Lem: A Brief Chronological Biography 181 Bibliography 183 About the Authors 195 THE ART AND SCIENCE OF STANISLAW LEM
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