http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10788 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:35:04 GMT 2026-06-15T01:35:04Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10370 Tytuł: Fantastyka a realizm / The fantastic and realism Redaktor(rzy): Biegluk-Leś, Weronika; Borowska-Szerszun, Sylwia; Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ewelina Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10370 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10369 Tytuł: Playing with Puppets: Foucauldian Power Relations in BioShock and Borderlands Autorzy: Tomczak, Izabela Abstrakt: The article investigates whether power/knowledge relations observed by Foucault in real life could be possibly applicable in the video game context. Two blockbuster titles, BioShock (2007) and Borderlands 2 (2009), are analysed to discuss the following aspects of Foucauldian theory: the existence of docile bodies, the creation of a dominant discourse of truth, and the maintenance of the created system. With regard to the creation of docile bodies, the perspective of two antagonists (Andrew Ryan and Handsome Jack) is centralised, and their role in creating a hierarchical system is presented. The Foucauldian rules of enclosure and rank, being crucial to the concept of docility, can be seen in the representation of the city of Rapture and the planet of Pandora. To develop the argument further, the rules connected to establishing and upholding the regime of truth, such as dissemination of knowledge, laws, monitoring and distribution of good, are analysed. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10369 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10368 Tytuł: The Idea behind Philip Roth’s The Breast or why the Author of Realistic Fiction Resorts to the Fantastic Autorzy: Kubiak, Stefan Abstrakt: The article is an attempt to explain why the writer known for his realistic narratives reached for the fantastic in his novella The Breast. Sexual obsession was one of Philip Roth’s subjects of interest for his whole literary life. In addition to his portrayal of postreligious Jewish protagonists, socio-political problems of post-war America, and coping with the perspective of imminent death, sensual experience resulting from male heterosexuality recurs in Roth’s narrations as a crucial element of human condition. His characters obsessed with sex are men of different ages. This article is a search for the reason why the writer reached for this device. Even though the narrator refers to literary inspirations: Gogol’s The Nose and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, the functions of those transformations serve different purposes from his own transformation into a woman’s breast. Despite the fact that the latter remains inexplicable, the idea of resorting to the fantastic seems to stem from a literary attempt to transcend the experience of the heterosexual male without changing his sexual orientation, which resembles the Platonic concept of desiring the qualities we do not possess. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10368 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z 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. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10366 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z