Granice modernizacji, rubieże utopii. Przypadek "Wizji lokalnej" Stanisława Lema

Abstract

The article reflects on the relationship between the categories of progress and modernization, and discusses their limitations exposed in Stanisław Lem’s reflection. The subject of the analysis is Lem’s late novel "Observation on the Spot", as well as his essays and discursive statements dealing with the issue of technological development and civilization progress (with all the positive and negative consequences of this process). Lem’s views on the above-mentioned issues are then set against the main theses of two lectures on technology that Martin Heidegger gave in the 1950s.