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Between sacrum and simulacrum: the space of chaos in Jacek Dukaj’s novella The Cathedral

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Leś M. M.
Świat i Słowo
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2020
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vol. 35(2)
89-108
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The author of the article analyses Jacek Dukaj’s science fiction novella The Cathedral (2000), which inspired the famous animated short film released under the same title in 2002. The eponymous pseudo-building was founded on the grave of Izmir Predú, a man who has sacrificed himself to save his travel companions’ lives. It is built using programmed nanoparticles and has formed itself – chaotically – into a cathedral-like asymmetrical, fractal structure. The novella’s main character, a Catholic priest, has been sent onto a planetoid to validate rumours about Predú’s holiness. The author of the article argues that the process of incarnating the protagonist into the Cathedral’s body leads him to the point of holistic transformation of the body, psyche and knowledge, similar to technological singularity, which is indistinguishable from a mystical, religious act. It is limited to earthly life, though, and brings the risk (as a transhuman act) of losing humanity. Jacek Dukaj offers the reader a few clues, but they are inconclusive. The reader’s interpretative hesitance therefore mirrors the protagonist’s ambiguous transformation. There is no reason to name the novella a religious one, although transhuman messianism plays an important role in it.
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Między sacrum a symulakrum. Przestrzeń chaosu w Katedrze Jacka Dukaja

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Leś M. M.
Świat i Słowo
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2020
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vol. 35
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issue 2
89-108
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The author of the article analyses Jacek Dukaj’s science fiction novella The Cathedral (2000), which inspired the famous animated short film released under the same title in 2002. The eponymous pseudo-building was founded on the grave of Izmir Predú, a man who has sacrificed himself to save his travel companions’ lives. It is built using programmed nanoparticles and has formed itself – chaotically – into a cathedral-like asymmetrical, fractal structure. The novella’s main character, a Catholic priest, has been sent onto a planetoid to validate rumours about Predú’s holiness. The author of the article argues that the process of incarnating the protagonist into the Cathedral’s body leads him to the point of holistic transformation of the body, psyche and knowledge, similar to technological singularity, which is indistinguishable from a mystical, religious act. It is limited to earthly life, though, and brings the risk (as a transhuman act) of losing humanity. Jacek Dukaj offers the reader a few clues, but they are inconclusive. The reader’s interpretative hesitance therefore mirrors the protagonist’s ambiguous transformation. There is no reason to name the novella a religious one, although transhuman messianism plays an important role in it.
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Transhumanizm - miedzy utopią, biotechnologią a gnozą

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Adamski K.
Roczniki Teologii Moralnej
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2012
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vol. 4
105-129
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Transhumanism is a relatively new trend of thought, combining philosophical anthropology and science fiction. Bioethically speaking, this stance bears a clear semblance of eugenics. The transhumanist idea occurred in the Western world about two decades ago. This text attempts to survey the transhumanist ideas in the perspective of the anthropological norm. It tries to explain the basic concepts in the transhumanist realm and to show a wider context in which these concepts are postulated. The historical outline of transhumanism functions as an introduction to the presentation of a new vision of the human being. Its goal is also to acquaint the reader with the most prominent figures representing this doctrine. Presenting the proponents of the contemporary idea of homo perfectus is to help the author evaluate morally the doctrine on the grounds of social philosophy and the Catholic moral anthropology.
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