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Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is a novel about labyrinths, memory, and the solitary beauty of a liminal world. In the Russian-speaking internet, the novel has found an unusually active and creative readership on VK (Vkontakte), a platform that combines elements of Facebook, Reddit, and Tumblr. This paper analyzes how VK communities have transformed Piranesi into a shared symbolic space—mirroring the novel’s themes of collective exploration, archive-building, and aesthetic devotion. Drawing on close reading of public VK groups, fan art, memes, and discussion threads (2021–2025), the paper argues that Piranesi functions as a “cult text” within certain VK subcultures, where the novel’s themes of endless halls, statues, tides, and journals resonate deeply with the platform’s archival logic and its user-driven, semi-anonymous communities.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) have long been studied for their spatial ambiguity and manipulation of perspective. However, they are structurally "frozen"—impossible constructions fixed in time. This paper proposes a methodology to "unfreeze" Piranesi’s static etchings using . By reverse-engineering the perspective grids of the Carceri into 3D digital meshes and applying kinematic constraints, this study transforms static ruins into dynamic, moving architectural machines. The research demonstrates how VK tools can resolve the structural paradoxes in Piranesi’s work, offering a new pedagogical model for teaching motion in architecture and robotic fabrication. piranesi vk