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Podcast: Science Fiction
Episode: Prof. Elana Gomel on Stanislaw Lem
Description: 00:00:57 Introduction
00:03:39 Professor Elana Gomel
00:09:55 Charles Dickens as scifi writer
00:14:17 Stanislaw Lem and The Other
00:18:59 Anti-Humanism
00:22:46 Lem vs the SFWA
00:26:27 Beyond Humanism
00:28:12 LEM and Posthumanism
00:33:37 Fear of the Posthuman
00:38:00 Lem's criticism of non-existant novels
00:40:41 Lem on AI
00:47:08 Philosophy of Posthumanism
00:51:02 Monster Fantasies
00:54:47 Dangerous utopias
00:58:34 A new mythos of time
01:03:37 Why does Elon Musk like simulation theory?
01:08:08 The dangers of Messianic myths
01:11:09 Darko Suvin and socialism
01:14:24 Communism was oppressive and boring
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