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The Future of Cyberpunk Criticism: Introduction to Transpacific Cyberpunk [PDF]
Arts, 2019 The genesis of cyberpunk criticism could well be dated to March 1987, when Stephen P [...]
Takayuki Tatsumi
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Le cyberpunk et son futur réalisé au prisme du discours méta-cyberpunk de la décennie 2010
Bibliomanie, 2022 Questo articolo si concentra sul cyberpunk negli anni 2010, un sottogenere della fantascienza nato negli anni '80. Affronta la natura riflessiva delle opere cyberpunk, che si traduce, in particolare, in un discorso "meta-cyberpunk" in cui la cultura ...
Christophe Duret
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Cyber-Transcendence and Immanence as a Religio-Spiritual Phenomenon in Cyberpunk Anime
Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2023 This article argues that Western cyberpunk narratives often suggest a technologically invoked transcendence, a cyber-transcendence, which represents a new ontological sphere and offers catharsis in dystopian scenarios. While Japanese cyberpunk anime also
Frey, Malte
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Science Fiction Film & Television, 2020 This article examines the connections between 1960s student protests, particularly the occupation of the University of Tokyo in 1968-9, and 1980s cyberpunk film in Japan. I argue that these films, while critical of the student movement, aim to reclaim and transform the utopian spirit that motivated them.
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Here Be Dragons: The Evolution of Cyberspace from William Gibson to Neal Stephenson
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2022 The article focuses on the evolution of cyberspace from a myth-critical perspective: the presence of irrational and fantasy elements in seemingly rational and scientific cyberpunk as a subgenre of hard science fiction.
Donets Pol, Krynytska Nataliya
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Society Structures from Anime-Cyberpunk to Postcyberpunk.
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2023 This paper analyzes the imagery of cities as depicted in the cyberpunk anime Ghost in the Shell (1995) and the post-cyberpunk anime series Psycho-Pass (2012).
Malte Frey
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‘Anthropomorphic drones’ and colonized bodies: William Gibson’s the peripheral [PDF]
, 2016 William Gibson tends to write in trilogies, as his first nine novels show. These series – the Sprawl, the Bridge, and the Blue Ant trilogies – are set in three different time periods and are populated by characters who reappear from one book to the next.
Mcfarlane, Anna
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Cyber against punk: Greg Bear’s Queen of Angels as metamorphosed cyberpunk
Literator, 1994 Recent American science fiction (which commercially dominates world science fiction) incorporates two schools of thought, ‘cyberpunk' and ‘hard SF’. which may be read to embody, respectively, radical/liberal and patriotic/ conservative propaganda.
M. F. Blatchford
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The Consumptive Significance of Images and Interface Values in Cyberpunk Cities
Text Matters, 2020 Cyberpunk is one of the latest genres in the development of science fiction. The genre emerged during the 80s and 90s, and in it the characters are confronted by an abundance of images and interface values.
Hossein Mohseni, Kian Soheil
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Becoming plant and posthumanism in Jeff Noon's Pollen (1995) [PDF]
, 2015 This article examines Jeff Noon’s cyberpunk novel Pollen (1995), arguing for its innovative treatment of spatial and species identities. In addition to the challenging representations of gender and feminism identified by Val Gough, there are other kinds ...
Cockin, Katharine
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