Elektronikus állam: elektronikus élet (Szórakozás és vizuális kultúra Simon Stålenhag regényében)
Electronic state: electronic life. Entertainment and visual culture in Simon Stålenhag’s novel

Summary/Abstract: This multi-disciplinary, multi-perspectival interpretation explores the significance of Swedish digital artist, visual storyteller, and musician/composer Simon Stålenhag’s 2017 book The Electric State, illustrated by the author. Through an interpretation of the novel, the paper shows the state of mind that the entertainment consumption and then the socially accepted frothing of visual culture in the techno-digital medium has led to. It also demonstrates the textual and visual contradictions, which construct a self-referential, reframing reading in which a critical relationship and awareness of technology and digitalisation based existence, of the virtual reality media platforms, can be grounded.

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