Science-fiction Studies, Volume 29, Issue 1SFS Publications, 2002 - Science fiction |
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Page 79
... Sublime / Grotesque . The sublime and the grotesque are in such close kinship that they are shadows of each other . Even when they are not occasioned or facilitated by technoscience , both are related to scientific reason . Reason is ...
... Sublime / Grotesque . The sublime and the grotesque are in such close kinship that they are shadows of each other . Even when they are not occasioned or facilitated by technoscience , both are related to scientific reason . Reason is ...
Page 83
... sublime . The sublime threatens thought / perception with the infinite expansion of an idea that is so integral , so impossibly unified , that it not only contains , but annihilates all multiplicity within it . The sublime stuns thought ...
... sublime . The sublime threatens thought / perception with the infinite expansion of an idea that is so integral , so impossibly unified , that it not only contains , but annihilates all multiplicity within it . The sublime stuns thought ...
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... sublime if it could produce an understanding of the sublime object - a planet that is both mathematically and dynamically sublime . But since it cannot , the enormous human intellectual labor is merely the display of the forms of human ...
... sublime if it could produce an understanding of the sublime object - a planet that is both mathematically and dynamically sublime . But since it cannot , the enormous human intellectual labor is merely the display of the forms of human ...
Contents
The Dickian Legacy Postmo | 15 |
Anthony Enns Mediality and Mourning in Stanislaw Lems Solaris | 34 |
Istvan CsicseryRonay Jr On the Grotesque in Science Fiction | 71 |
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