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Peter Swirski

Auteur de Stanislaw Lem Reader

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Peter Swirski is a Canadian scholar and literary critic featured in Canadian Who's Who. A Specialist in American literature and American Studies, he is the author of 15 books, including A Stanislaw Lem Reader; The Art and Science of Stomslaw Lem: From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, afficher plus Lemograpghy and Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel. afficher moins

Œuvres de Peter Swirski

Stanislaw Lem Reader (1997) — Directeur de publication — 38 exemplaires
From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005) 19 exemplaires
When highbrow meets lowbrow : popular culture and the rise of nobrow (2017) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires

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Twelve Tomorrows - 2014: Visionary stories of the near future (2014) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires

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I thought the author was going to use Poe's Eureka to make interesting connections between science and poetry, but he mostly just demolished the extent of Poe's knowledge of his contemporarys' scientific work. I enjoyed more some really interesting analysis of Lem's portrayal of the shortcomings of science in [b:The Invincible|251633|The Invincible|Stanisław Lem|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1441700738l/251633._SY75_.jpg|983629] - how little it might equip us to understand the totally alien entity. I felt his discussion of AI as author was a bit lacking in reference to the text and it also seemed dated, but then I realised that, having been written in 2000 it was actually quite prescient and it might be interesting to follow some of that thinking in later work, informed by advances in machine learning as applied to creativity.… (plus d'informations)
 
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