We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)

哈尔·克莱蒙特，本名哈里·斯塔布斯，生于美国麻省，曾获哈佛天文学学士学位，二战时入伍，成为一名轰炸机飞行员。退伍后成为中学教师，长期教授科学课程。 克莱蒙特一生共创作了十五部长篇以及大量中短篇小说。1954年，《重力使命》开始在《惊奇科幻》连载，成为他的代表作，该书也是科幻史上硬科幻小说的代表。 克莱蒙特在科幻作家和读者中具有崇高的声望。他是1991年世界科幻大会的主宾，1998年入选科幻/奇幻名人殿，美国科幻奇幻作家协会于1999年星云奖颁奖仪式上授予他科幻大师称号。

For a profit -- and adventure -- Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity itself played strange tricks. He would dare the perils of strange tribes and stranger creatures -- even dicker with those strange aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the disk-shaped planet of...(展开全部)

For a profit -- and adventure -- Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity itself played strange tricks. He would dare the perils of strange tribes and stranger creatures -- even dicker with those strange aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the disk-shaped planet of...(展开全部)

While the world evaporates into the digital, the anachronistic Polaroid snapshot dominates media and advertising. The recent sale of the photography collection owned by Polaroid’s inventor, Edwin Land, to the Viennese photography museum WestLicht marks an artmarket trend toward the analog. Beginning in the sixties, Polaroid supplied artists around the world, from Ansel Adams to...(展开全部)

The experience of the impossible churns up in our epoch whenever a collective dream turns to trauma: politically, sexually, economically, and with a certain ultimacy, ecologically. Out of an ancient theological lineage, the figure of the cloud comes to convey possibility in the face of the impossible. An old mystical nonknowing of God now hosts a current knowledge of uncertaint...(展开全部)

The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the prop...(展开全部)