To be is not to inhabit: Yuri M. Lotman's Ulysses and his transhumanist context
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F23%3A10473069" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/23:10473069 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=bxIm4UGoVT" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=bxIm4UGoVT</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0121" target="_blank" >10.1515/sem-2023-0121</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
To be is not to inhabit: Yuri M. Lotman's Ulysses and his transhumanist context
Original language description
This essay contextualizes the Dantean figure of Ulysses, as conceived by Yuri M. Lotman, and draws this key figure of modernity into a network of mutually interconnected discourses: primarily transhumanist visions of the human future in space, which nevertheless arise from the specifically modern epistemic dimension of "restlessness," and intertwine with post-war astronautics, cyborg visions of human re-engineering, and revolutionary considerations of speculative realism. The key is Lotman's emphasis on Ulysses as a figure of "energy of thought"; in this regard, the essay shows how the original poetic "decision," embodied by the Ulysses figure, advocates implicit cruelty in the name of the future (treated as an inevitable fate), and how this decision generates a logical and progressively unfolding series of "inhuman" images of man situated in the universe as an event of saturation of matter with merciless intelligence.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-17984S" target="_blank" >GA22-17984S: Focal images: Violence and Inhumanism in contemporary art and media culture</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Semiotica
ISSN
0037-1998
e-ISSN
1613-3692
Volume of the periodical
2023
Issue of the periodical within the volume
254
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
57-80
UT code for WoS article
001089357900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85175841039