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Line of Resistance
Line of Resistance
How to find meaning in a world without imposed limitations
You don’t have to work to have a comfortable life. You don’t have to have a family to procreate. You don’t have to do anything. Intelligent technological environment, virtual worlds of imagination and designer pharmaceuticals provide you with health, entertainment and quieten your self-consciousness. There is just one thing they can’t give you: the meaning of life. Designing the meaning of life for billions of people is something that professionals such as the protagonist - Paweł Kostrzewa - do.
But who will lead Paweł himself out of the desert of nihilism? How is he supposed to direct his own meaning of life?
Every man must have some absolute lines of resistance which make his successes and failures worthwhile.
Dukaj has made a name for himself, so you'll reach for that Lem 2.0, you'll survive the frantic run-up bombarding you with information from a new, better world, like a TikTok algorithm. William Gibson throws his audience into the deep end in a similar way.
But at least with Gibson, you know that everything will eventually be explained — words, abbreviations and ideas. And even if the world seems strange to you, you will find yourself in people and things. Not so with Dukaj. He is interested in philosophies, concepts, ideas; and man is there to sit down and talk about them.
In doing so, he uses a curious language that no longer exists to describe what is yet to come.
Michał R. Wiśniewski, Gazeta Wyborcza
Book Details
445K
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Hardcover
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143x205 mm
I edition
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Wydawnictwo Literackie
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2010