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**The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971.** In 1957, Stanisław Lem published __Dialogues__, a book "conceived under the spell of cybernetics," as he wrote in the preface to the second edition. Mimicking the form of Berkeley's __Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous__, Lem's original dialogue was an attempt to unravel the then-novel field of cybernetics. It was a testimony, Lem wrote later, to "the almost limitless cognitive optimism" he felt upon his discovery of cybernetics. This is the first English translation of Lem's Dialogues, including the text of the first edition and the later essays added to the second edition in 1971. For the second edition, Lem chose not to revise the original. Recognizing the naivete of his hopes for cybernetics, he constructed a supplement to the first dialogue, which consists of two critical essays, the first a summary of the evolution of cybernetics, the second a contribution to the cybernetic theory of the "sociopathology of governing," amending the first edition's discussion of the pathology of social regulation; and two previously

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Author

Stanislaw Lem, Peter Butko (transl.)

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262366632

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Computer Science, Philosophy

Rating

4.36 / 5 (177 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14