10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUTUROLOGICAL»
Discover the use of
futurological in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
futurological and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The
Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress.
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The
Futurological Congress (from the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy)
World-renowned cosmonaut Ijon Tichy, persuaded to attent the Eighth World Futurological Congress, is severely injured when the Congress is routed by Costa Rican revolutionaries, is refrigerated in liquid nitrogen, and awakens in the year ...
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Visions and Re-visions: (re)constructing Science Fiction
§4. Stanislaw. Lem's. Futurological. Congress. as. a. Metageneric. Text. [
PJerhaps I had created another ... kind ... [of] value [, one] that was intrinsic, like
the cathedrals at Orvieto and Siena.... It was much easier, of course, to laugh at
my ...
Swirski: In The Futurological Congress you play with the idea of irreality, with the
idea of an endless regression of multiple layers of synthetic reality. You refrain
from a neuro- cybernetic description of this "world within a world" effect and use a
...
Stanislaw Lem, Peter Swirski, 1997
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Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the ...
In The Futurological Congress, when Lem plays with different variations of '
artificiality', the boundaries between reality and one's perception of reality totally
disappear, and they change places with each other so easily that the question of
...
6
Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction
Nonetheless, whatever its ostensible location (future, "fourth dimension," other
planets, alternate universes), the self-understanding of much SF — as shown in
the historical section of this book — was uneasily futurological. Being written in a
...
James E. Gunn, Matthew Candelaria, 2005
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Articles on Polish Science Fiction Novels, Including: ...
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Fans of science fiction, philosophy and futurological theory will love this book of quirky concepts. This book follows on from "The Museum of Unnatural History" but can be read standalone and contains 31 all new illustrations.
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Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature
In spite of continual lapses of individual writers into predictive folly, when
futurological enterprises are viewed as a collective they have the same mutually
contradictory virtue as sf. -G- GAIL, OTTO WILLI (1896-1956). German writer
whose ...
Brian M. Stableford, 2004
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Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond
What he finds most revealing about futurological studies are the extraordinary
reservations expressed in the prefaces of futurological books about the accuracy
of their predictions concerning the state of humanity in the future. What becomes
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUTUROLOGICAL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
futurological is used in the context of the following news items.
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The history of the Board of Secondary Education Rajasthan (BSER) is a remarkable panorama of progressive record of the futurological vision ... «D24 News, Jun 15»
The Ecstasist: A Conversation with the Novelist Jonathan Lethem
... sometimes a very ponderous cognitive writer but other times he lets his Surrealism dominate, in something like The Futurological Congress. «Boing Boing, Apr 15»
David Graeber: 'So many people spend their working lives doing …
Summarising predictions in recent futurological literature, John Lanchester has written: “There's capital, doing better than ever; the robots, ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
'Glow,' by Ned Beauman
... Pynchon-esque social satire, yielding the funniest fiction about drug chemistry since Stanislaw Lem's “The Futurological Congress” (1973). «SFGate, Feb 15»
Drafthouse Films' Obscure Objects Of Desire: Ari Folman's THE …
... Waltz With Bashir, is a loose adaptation of Polish author Stanislav Lem's mind-bending novel The Futurological Congress, transplanting the ... «TwitchFilm, Feb 15»
Are We Passing Through a Bottleneck, or Will the Explosion of …
While Bostrom doesn't explicitly endorse this idea in the paper quoted from, it appears to be among his repertoire of futurological beliefs. «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Jan 15»
Architects, get ready for the holographic design process: Microsoft …
curt, I think you'd enjoy Stanislaw Lem's book The Futurological Congress. sameolddoctor. (History|Contact). Jan 23, 15 8:17 pm. Miles, tech is ... «Archinect, Jan 15»
Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self
... the computer-generated fractals and pixel-painted inscapes of our own futurological imaginings. One illustration of a diseased kidney calls to ... «Boing Boing, Jan 15»
The 1926 painting that foresaw how London would look today
For apart from its futurological accuracy, the most striking thing about this 1926 Tube poster is its optimism. Front cover of Gustave Doré's ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
