![]() ![]() It might therefore seem grossly hyperbolic, if not downright false, to claim that Futurological Congress (1971) is unique in its generic self-consciousness. Most, perhaps all, of Stanislaw Lem's fictions are typically postmodern in this respect ( inter alia): they implicitly comment on the genre(s) in relation to which they define themselves. ![]() Out of The Time Machine: Generic Self-Consciousness It was much easier, of course, to laugh at my cathedral, which was not even material, which existed not as a thing but as a metaphor – or, as a modern cyberneticist might put it, as an analog model of multivalent relations, of polysemy. Erhaps I had created another … kind … value that was intrinsic, like the cathedrals at Orvieto and Siena…. ![]()
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