http://hdl.handle.net/11320/149 2026-06-01T15:12:24Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/16876 Tytuł: Tel Awiw – miasto wielu mitów Autorzy: Wildowicz, Joanna Abstrakt: Due to its history, founding myths and urban development Tel Aviv is a city of three faces. It is a White City of Bauhaus buildings that characterizes a modern and secular capital, which in 2003 was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in recognition of an architectural phenomenon on a global scale; it is a vibrant metropolis that never sleeps – „Tel Aviv – non-stop city”. This slogan was invented by an advertising agency in 1989 and almost immediately became an everyday catchphrase, containing a succinct and overly apt characterization of the city. At the level of a myth, the city that never sleeps was supposed to be dynamic, hedonistic, elegant and decidedly secular. Nightlife is a fundamental part of the urban anatomy and thus distinguishes Tel Aviv from other Israeli cities. Nevertheless, Tel Aviv is the first and foremost a Hebrew City. Founded in 1909 as Jaffa’s neighbourhood and declared a city in 1934, Tel Aviv was in fact the first Jewish city built as part of the national revival and Zionist settlement project. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/15350 Tytuł: Jerozolima – niezależny byt. Obraz miasta w powieści Mahmouda Shukaira Jerusalem Stands Alone Autorzy: Wildowicz, Joanna Abstrakt: In his novel Jerusalem Stands Alone, a Palestinian writer, Mahmoud Shukair, pays homage to his home city. Jerusalem is teeming with uninterrupted life, overwhelmed by the past’s facts and experiences. While observing the urban space, apart from the places of religious worship and historical monuments, the author notices the people. It is about them, for them, that Shukair dedicates 155 short stories – vignettes. Each story is a separate tale; through them, the author evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of ancient and modern Jerusalem. 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10366 Tytuł: Do Androids Dream of Human Bodies? – Becky Chamber’s Portrayal of Artificial Intelligences Autorzy: Dzięcioł-Pędich, Agnieszka Abstrakt: The aim of this article is to show how Becky Chambers portrays two of the three sentient artificial intelligences that are some of the major characters in her novels. The main issues discussed in this article are how a sentient AI might function with and without a humanlike body, what benefits and limitations these two states might impose on it, and how they influence the AIs’ relationships with humans and other sentient creatures. The article also presents how Chambers’ artificial intelligences compare to those in other science-fiction novels as well as how contemporary science and ethics approach the creation of sentient AIs. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10365 Tytuł: Mit utopijnej Ameryki w Drodze Cormaca McCarthy’ego: postkapitalistyczna, postkonsumpcyjna, postapokaliptyczna wizja świata Autorzy: Wildowicz, Joanna Abstrakt: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road vividly depicts the end of human civilization and the extinction of life on the planet. The whole Earth is covered in ashes and soot, as cities and forests have been consumed by the unknown catastrophe on the globe. McCarthy offers a visually stunning but disturbing picture of how existence could look at the end of the road to nowhere for two pilgrims taking a purposeless journey through the country which once dominated the world. In The Road Cormac McCarthy deconstructs the myth of exceptional America. The novelist visualizes the world in the post-capitalist, post-consumer and postapocalyptic era, without hope for redemption, though. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z