Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The S. Lem’s “Phantomatic” Concept in Context of Relationship Between Cybertext and Artificial Intelligence

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (3)
Authors
Degtyarenko, Ksenia A.; Ermakov, Tikhon K.
Contact information
Degtyarenko, Ksenia A.: Siberia Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; ; Ermakov, Tikhon K. : Siberia Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation;
Keywords
phantomatics; cybertext; artificial intelligence; hyperreality
Abstract

The digital transformation of culture, caused by the development of both technology and social space, is becoming an increasingly significant subject of reflection in the humanities. When addressing the specifics of modern digital space, it becomes heuristically justified to turn to concepts that arose in the state of anticipation of future transformations, one of which is S. Lem’s “phantomatics”. Initially a model describing a possible state of loss of the sense of the real as a result of the development of biotechnology, phantomatics was used as a conceptual tool mainly in the middle of the 20th century, after which its significance as a conceptual model declined, and it was replaced by better-known concepts of the simulative and hyperreal. Using the phantomatic language of description in relation to the problem of cybertext, outlined by E. Aarseth, one can outline the problem of transition in the relationship between the real and the virtual. Firstly, there is a transition between the real and the virtual, the analysis of which is a significant problem within the concept of phantomatics, but poorly illuminated by other concepts of virtuality analysis. Secondly, the phantomatic prism focuses attention on the problem of human skills, which can also become a kind of boundary, since they require “training” to use virtual tools, which is beyond the phantomatic experience

Pages
516–525
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EDDXCV
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/155043

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