Scenarios for the End of Humankind 1900-2000 3700-AL-LSZ-OG

The assessment methods and criteria:
20% reading assignments
30% participation in class discussions
50% final in-class test
3 absences allowed during the term

Teksty główne: literackie
Ballard, J. G “Człowiek podświadomy” i “The Reptile Enclosure” (w tomach Ogród czasu i The Terminal Beach)
Carter, Angela Marianna i barbarzyńcy, Warszawa 1988
Dick, Philip K., Blade Runner. Czy androidy śnią o elektrycznych owcach?, Warszawa 1995
Dick, Philip K., „Czarna skrzyneczka” (w tomie opowiadań Kopia ojca)
Gunn, James. Droga do science fiction t. I – IV Warszawa 1988 (opowiadanie Forster, E.M. „Maszyna staje” oraz fragment Olaf Stapledon Ostatni i pierwsi ludzie )
Huxley, Aldous. Nowy wspaniały świat, Kraków 1988
Miller, jr, Walter M., Kantyk dla Leibowitza, Poznań 1998
Stapledon, Olaf. Dziwny John, Śląsk, Katowice, 1990
Watson, Ian „Rentgenowscy rozbitkowie” (w tomie opowiadań Powolne ptaki, Warszawa, 1998)
Wells, H.G. Wehikuł czasu, Wolne Lektury.

Pomocnicze konteksty krytyczne:
Berger, James After the End. Representations of Post-Apocalypse, Minneapolis, London, 1999
Freud, Zygmunt „Kultura jako źródło cierpień”. Wolne lektury
Fukuyama, Francis Koniec człowieka, Znak, 2004.
Laing, R.D. The Politics of Experience. Penguin Books, 1990.
Lindsey H.. The Late Great Planet Earth, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1970
Määttä, Jerry. „Keeping Count of the End of the World: A Statistical Analysis of the Historiography, Canonisation, and Historical Fluctuations of Anglophone Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Disaster Narratives.” Culture unbound
On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from ‘Science Fiction Studies’, Terre Haute and Greencastle, 1992
Spengler, Oswald The Decline of the West (One-volume edition). Trans. Charles Francis Atkinson, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999.
Sutin, Lawrence, Boże inwazje. Życie Philipa K. Dicka, Poznań 2005
Thompson, Damian Koniec czasu. Wiara i lęk w cieniu millennium, Warszawa 1999.
Toynbee, Arnold. A study of History. Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D. C. Somervell. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998.

Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:

• Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
• Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics

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