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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