Abstract
The article draws attention to the significant influence of the time machine, as a prop, on plot structure and narration, as well as its specific ontological status. The examples used are H.G. Wells’s novel The Time Machine (1895), and the British tv series Doctor Who (1963–1989; 2005–). The article outlines the liminal character of the vehicle as a prop. It also proposes the interpretation of this prop
in the spirit of Object-Oriented Ontology, which, according to the author, reveals the potential of the time machine in transcending the anthropocentric perspective.
References
Clegg B., Jak zbudować wehikuł czasu. Nauka a podróże w przeszłość i przyszłość, przeł. S. Szymański, Warszawa 2014.
Dick P.K., A Little Something for Us Tempunauts, [w:] Final Stage. The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology, red. E.L. Ferman, B.N. Malzberg, New York 1975, s. 259–284.
Hollinger V., Deconstructing the Time Machine, „Science Fiction Studies” 1987, t. 14, nr 2, s. 201–221. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.14.2.201
Leś M.M., Fantastycznonaukowe podróże w czasie. Między logiką a emocjami, Białystok 2017.
Marzec A., Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata, Warszawa 2021.
Nahin P.J., Time Machine Tales. The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel, Springer 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48864-6
Newman K., Doctor Who, London 2005.
Nicholson N., H.G. Wells, London 1957.
Pisowiczowa J., Przedmowa, [w:] H.G. Wells, Wehikuł czasu, Wrocław–Warszawa–Kraków 1985.
Smuszkiewicz A., Stereotyp fabularny fantastyki naukowej, Wrocław–Warszawa–Kraków–Gdańsk 1980.
Wehikuł czasu, [w:] Encyklopedia filmu science fiction, red. K. Loska, Kraków 2004, s. 7.
Wells H.G., Wehikuł czasu, przeł. F. Wermiński, J.K. Palczewski, Wrocław–Warszawa-Kraków 1985.
Wittenberg D., Time Travel. A Popular Philosophy of a Narrative, New York 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823273348
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Krzysztof Czyżak
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors
Authors of texts accepted for publication in Przestrzenie Teorii are required to complete, sign and return to the editor's office the Agreement for granting a royalty-free license to works with a commitment to grant a CC sub-license.
Under the agreement, the authors of texts published in Przestrzenie Teorii grant the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań a non-exclusive, royalty-free license and authorize the use of Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Creative Commons sub-license.
The authors retain the right to continue the free disposal of the work.
Users
Interested Internet users are entitled to use works published in Przestrzenie Teorii since 2015, for non-commercial purposes only, under the following conditions:
- attribution - obligation to provide, together with the distributed work, information about the authorship, title, source (link to the original work, DOI) and the license itself.
- no derivatives - the work must be preserved in its original form, without the author's consent it is not possible to distribute the modified work, such as translations, publications, etc.
Copyrights are reserved for all texts published before 2015.
Miscellaneous
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań retains the right to magazines as a whole (layout, graphic form, title, cover design, logo etc.).