Przejrzystość i blask. Retoryka wizualna w utopii i fantastyce naukowej

Abstract

Science fiction is often depicted as literature of ideas. It is reasonable, but – in its essence – science fiction relies upon visual imagination, inherited from utopia, and it draws toward rhetoric visualisation thanks to such rhetorical devices as metaphor or hyperbole. It is placed at the very intersection of word and picture. Many movies, TV series, novels and stories share this principle, mainly in the form of basic but powerful meta-religious division between light and darkness, surprisingly borrowing its persuasive force from the sublime. One of the most interesting case here is cyberpunk, a dystopian genre reinforcing the idea and symbol of transparency.