Stanislaw Lem

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Stanislaw Lem on idiots. —

October 12th His Master's Voice "And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other…www.goodreads.com The absurdity of people who think that we (as a human race) might have any ability to establish contact with other life forms is on the perfect display in this book. I am going now through a binge reading of Stanislaw Lem’s works and my mind is working…

Stanisław Lem’s Solaris says more about our planet’s crisis than a lot of environmental writing. At the unreachable heart of Stanisław Lem’s masterpiece Solaris lies a distant, ocean-wrapped planet orbiting a pair of suns in the region of Aquarius. Initially a ‘modest item’ among the hundreds of planets identified annually…

Back in 1997, I wrote a few web pages about Stanislaw Lem, with some reviews of his books, including his delightful collection of short stories “The Cyberiad”. Inspired by his fictitious criticism of non-existent books, I wrote some fictitious home pages in the first person of his brilliant but braggadocios…

A look into Anagram’s new sci-fi audio piece about plant communication and the end of our species based on real events. [Below is a transcript adapted from the launch presentation of Messages to a Post Human Earth, as part of the IDFA DocLab’s do {not} touch: Symbiotic Bodies event in…

We tend to draw lines, even with the things that seem inseparable. In the case of technology and science, it get’s even blurrier for our dear 21st century minds. Science feels like the grand master, the roof over our head, the guide to everything out there. …

. . . I assure you, in a couple of years everyone will consider the possession of a soft, hairy, sweating body to be shameful and indecent. A body needs washing, deodorizing, caring for, and even then it breaks down, while in a prostheticized society you can slap on the…

Inspired by But Does It Float — I “And common sense? It is that which is understood by an intelligence using senses no different from those of a baboon. Such an intelligence wishes to know the world in terms that apply to its terrestrial, biological niche.” — Stanislaw Lem, Fiasco Originally seen on But Does It Float (one…