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Back to the Dead Mountaineer's Hotel by KIWA is a philosophical return to a cult science-fiction landmark-an exploration that moves beyond genre into questions of identity, perception, technology, and the instability of the self. Set in the conceptual shadow of a mysterious mountain hotel, this book unfolds as a layered meditation on doubles, alienation, and the fragile architecture of reality. Drawing from literature, film theory, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, mysticism, and media archaeology, KIWA examines how the figure of the ""Other""-whether alien, machine, or mirror-image-destabilizes the modern subject. The hotel becomes more than a setting: it is a threshold space between material and metaphysical realms, between law and anomaly, between narrative coherence and fragmentation. From Soviet modernism to digital culture, from Borges to cybernetics, from psychedelia to biopolitics, the text maps a terrain where identity dissolves and reforms under technological and ideological pressure. Blending essayistic rigor with associative, fragmentary writing, Back to the Dead Mountaineer's Hotel challenges the boundaries between criticism and creation. It is not simply a study of a film or a story-it is an inquiry into how we construct the self, how we misrecognize it, and what remains when the mirror no longer confirms who we are. For readers interested in experimental literature, media philosophy, Eastern European modernism, and the metaphysics of the double, this book offers a dense, intellectually adventurous journey into the architecture of estrangement.

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KIWA is a multichannel meta-artist. He actively explores and blends different media, from conceptual objects to total audiovisual environments: all together functioning as a hypertextual research of meaning-making and cultural codes, collective and personal myths. He blends the meaning of authorship on different levels. Interested in quote, pastiche, games of language and identity, (post)psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis were self-explanatory as literary methods. The book of KIWA is a labyrinth, or rather a labyrinth in a labyrinth.

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