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The Absolute Indeterminacy of Karel Čapek’s Science Fiction
Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2019-01-01 , DOI: 10.16995/olh.130
Lynn Badia

This article reintroduces readers to the science fiction novel The Absolute at Large (1922) by Karel Capek, one of the most influential but largely unacknowledged voices in early twentieth-century literature. I frame The Absolute at Large as a narrative about ‘free energy’, a term I have proposed to examine a range of relationships implicated in speculation about super-abundant or ‘virtually-limitless’ energy sources. I argue that Capek’s commentary emerges in the double meaning of the titular ‘Absolute’—a reference to both free energy and the divine—which foregrounds an inherent indeterminacy folded into the promise of abundance. This reading is made by examining Capek’s serious engagement with the philosophy of pragmatism, which has been consistently misrepresented in the existing literature on Capek’s legacy.

中文翻译:

卡雷尔·卡佩克(KarelČapek)的科幻小说的绝对不确定性

本文为读者重新介绍了卡雷尔·卡普克(Karel Capek)的科幻小说《大绝对》(1922),这是20世纪早期文学中最有影响力但未得到广泛认可的声音之一。我将“绝对绝对”构想为“自由能源”的叙事,我提议用这个术语来研究与推测过度富裕或“虚拟无限”能源有关的一系列关系。我认为,卡佩克的评论出现在名义上的“绝对”的双重含义中(即对自由能和神圣的引用),这预示着内在的不确定性会被折叠成丰富的承诺。本文是通过考察Capek对实用主义哲学的认真投入而得出的,而实用主义哲学在有关Capek遗产的现有文献中一直被曲解。
更新日期:2019-01-01
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