Browsing by Author "Genov, Nikolay"

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HOW TO THINK THE CYBERNODE: “LABYRINTH OF REFLECTIONS” AND “THE HELMET OF HORROR”

Genov, Nikolay; Генов, Николай (Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)

The paper aims to extend Marie-Laure Ryan’s differentiation of cyberspace and virtual reality by combining it with Paul Adam’s network topology to create two radical models of VR which could be used to categorize the ...
PHANTOMOLOGY – A MARGINALIZED PROJECT AND ITS BENEFITS TO LITERARY STUDIES

Genov, Nikolay; Генов, Николай (Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)

The paper explores the sixth chapter of Stanislaw Lem’s “Summa Technologiae” in which the Polish writer deals with the theoretical dimensions of what would later become known as virtual reality. The aim of the research ...
THE VIRTUAL BODY AND POWER RELATIONS IN THE WORKS OF ERNEST CLINE AND SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Genov, Nikolay; Генов, Николай (Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)

The paper delves into the power relations regarding the virtual body in the works of renowned sci-fi authors Sergei Lukyanenko and Ernest Cline. It explores the concepts of economical dependency, state and corporative power ...