CIVILISATION AS SELF-ALIENATION MACHINE: COMMENTS TO BORISLAV PEKIC'S 'ATLANTIS'

The Borislav Pekic's novel 'Atlantis' portrays a world in which people are replaced by robots. To admit that world is full of ambivalence: that is falls outside any clear-cut division explaining who is like you and who is not, determines responsibility for the others and at the same time becomes a barrier against the stream of totalitarian thinking. By criticizing uncontrolled development of science, Pekic notes that in these days we lack intellectual, moral or spiritual points of reference needed to assess technology, and its development is determined causally and not theologically. Pekic seems to claim that we ourselves are guilty of being bound in the world of matter that enslaved us and that become an obstacle not only to experience another human being and also the entire.