Open AccessFikcja antropologiczna czy antropologia spekulatywna? O funkcjach poznawczych narracji fantastycznonaukowych
Author(s) -
Dariusz Brzostek
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acta universitatis wratislaviensis. prace kulturoznawcze
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0860-6668
DOI - 10.19195/0860-6668.23.2-3.4
Subject(s) - anthropocentrism , anthropology , context (archaeology) , philosophy , literature , fiction theory , literary fiction , function (biology) , epistemology , sociology , art , history , literary criticism , archaeology , evolutionary biology , environmental ethics , biology
Speculative anthropology or anthropological fiction? On the referential function of science-fiction narrativesThe article focuses on the referential function of science fiction and its relations to speculative anthropology and anthropological fiction. The methodological context for this analysis consists of Andrzej Stoff’s concept of literary images in science-fiction novels, Fredric Jameson’s archaeology of the future, and Roman Jakobson’s theory of the referential function of language. The texts analyzed herein are two novels: by Stanisław Lem Solaris and Peter Watts Blindsight. These works are analyzed as procedurals — novels emphasizing sequences of scientific anthropological procedures and discussing cultural categories such as “otherness,” “race,” and “anthropocentrism.”