Dominika Oramus
Biographic Data
| ID | 5401234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominika Oramus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominika |
| FAMILY NAME | Oramus |
| SIGNATURE | ORAMUS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1376-7062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Two Cultures Revisited. Stanisław Lem’s His Master’s Voice
I would like to take, as my starting point, the famous 1959 lecture of C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures, where science fiction is by and large ignored, and see how the consecutive points Snow is making are also discussed in the following decades of the 20th century by other philosophers of science, among them Stanisław Lem, Steven Weinberg, and Jonathan Gottschall. In 1959 Snow postulated re-uniting the two cultures through the reform of education. I…
The Maps of Inner Space
Mapy kosmosu wewnętrznego. Opowiadanie J. G. Ballarda „The Reptile Enclosure” w świetle traktatu R. D. Lainga Polityka doświadczenia W roku 1962 J. G. Ballard opublikował manifest artystyczny „Which Way to Inner Space?”, w którym postulował, by twórcy ambitnej science fiction odeszli od powtarzalnych historii o galaktycznych przygodach, a zajęli się kosmosem wewnętrznym człowieka. Dwa lata później pisarz opublikował opowiadanie „The Reptile Enclo…
“The Very Highest Level of Mythic Resonance.” Angela Carter and the Trope of Recognition
This essay aims at adding to the critical debate on Angela Carter and myths from a more technical perspective and discusses her keen interest in the “lo and behold” moment of recognition. I claim that for Carter myths “work” in literary texts by producing a sudden illumination. At that moment, an image reveals itself to be interposed from an older story that has, or used to have, some cultural importance. In order to describe this phenomenon, I a…
Against the Anthropocene? Epidemics in J.G. Ballard's Short Stories
This essay attempts to demonstrate Ballard's stance against the Anthropocene by discussing three of his short stories “The Voices of Time”, “Myths of the Near Future” and “News from the Sun”. All three are detailed depictions of global epidemics that invisibly kill off humankind. All three introduce a metaphorically “geological” time scale: Ballard constructs similes whose vehicles are mineral strata thousands of years into the future. Thus, read…
The Art of Un-Making
This paper analyzes one kind of Ballardian landscape, wastelands created by nuclear explosions, and aims at interpreting them as a study of the un-making of the human-made world. Cityscapes of ruins, crumbling concrete concourses and parking lots, abandoned barracks and military stations, radiation and mutations make Nagasaki, Eniwetok and Mururoa wasteland snap-shots of the future. In the minds of the protagonists, the un-made landscape is stran…
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The Art of Un-Making
This paper analyzes one kind of Ballardian landscape, wastelands created by nuclear explosions, and aims at interpreting them as a study of the un-making of the human-made world. Cityscapes of ruins, crumbling concrete concourses and parking lots, abandoned barracks and military stations, radiation and mutations make Nagasaki, Eniwetok and Mururoa wasteland snap-shots of the future. In the minds of the protagonists, the un-made landscape is stran…
The Two Cultures Revisited. Stanisław Lem’s His Master’s Voice
I would like to take, as my starting point, the famous 1959 lecture of C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures, where science fiction is by and large ignored, and see how the consecutive points Snow is making are also discussed in the following decades of the 20th century by other philosophers of science, among them Stanisław Lem, Steven Weinberg, and Jonathan Gottschall. In 1959 Snow postulated re-uniting the two cultures through the reform of education. I…
The Maps of Inner Space
Mapy kosmosu wewnętrznego. Opowiadanie J. G. Ballarda „The Reptile Enclosure” w świetle traktatu R. D. Lainga Polityka doświadczenia W roku 1962 J. G. Ballard opublikował manifest artystyczny „Which Way to Inner Space?”, w którym postulował, by twórcy ambitnej science fiction odeszli od powtarzalnych historii o galaktycznych przygodach, a zajęli się kosmosem wewnętrznym człowieka. Dwa lata później pisarz opublikował opowiadanie „The Reptile Enclo…
“The Very Highest Level of Mythic Resonance.” Angela Carter and the Trope of Recognition
This essay aims at adding to the critical debate on Angela Carter and myths from a more technical perspective and discusses her keen interest in the “lo and behold” moment of recognition. I claim that for Carter myths “work” in literary texts by producing a sudden illumination. At that moment, an image reveals itself to be interposed from an older story that has, or used to have, some cultural importance. In order to describe this phenomenon, I a…
Against the Anthropocene? Epidemics in J.G. Ballard's Short Stories
This essay attempts to demonstrate Ballard's stance against the Anthropocene by discussing three of his short stories “The Voices of Time”, “Myths of the Near Future” and “News from the Sun”. All three are detailed depictions of global epidemics that invisibly kill off humankind. All three introduce a metaphorically “geological” time scale: Ballard constructs similes whose vehicles are mineral strata thousands of years into the future. Thus, read…
Art (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Mythology (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (2 works)