Cyberpunk & Cyberculture

Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson

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Paperback | 1 April 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Cyberpunk is the fiction of a culture saturated by electronic technology. Its vocabulary is the language of cybernetics, biotechnology, corporational greed and urban subcultures. Massively successful in both book and film form, cyberpunk has redefined not only contemporary science fiction but also, through its capacity to anticipate technology and its cultural impact, analytical work in the social sciences and humanities.

Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers -- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shirley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson -- setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema -- from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix -- and contemporary work on the culture of technology.

Seven main themes are addressed: the impact of virtual technologies on identity, space and community; the interplay of technological and mythological motifs; reconfigurations of the body initiated by technoscience; issues of gender and sexuality; the significance of the sprawling megacity; cyberpunk's Gothic traits of monstrosity; transgression and social unrest; and the editing of history and memory. This is a major effort to address how present day culture has been impacted by a new generation as well as a new technology.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current

Preface	p. ix
A brief guide to the book	p. xvii
Introduction: Science fiction and cyberpunk	p. 1
Cyberpunk and virtual technologies	p. 23
Cyberpunk, technology and mythology	p. 41
Technology and mythology: origins	p. 41
Cyborgs	p. 44
Myth and religion in cyberpunk	p. 52
Fiction, theory and the language of science	p. 63
Cyberpunk and the body	p. 72
The cyberbody	p. 72
Idoru: the body as personality construct	p. 79
The ghost	p. 83
The stranger	p. 88
Burning Chrome and Mona Lisa Overdrive: the body as commodity	p. 92
The doll	p. 105
Cyberpunk, gender and sexuality	p. 109
Technologies of the gendered subject	p. 109
Gender roles in cyberpunk	p. 121
Virtual sex	p. 126
Cyberpunk and the city	p. 133
Science and space	p. 134
Digital maps: ON/OFF	p. 140
Venice	p. 146
Space and narrative structure	p. 150
Cyberpunk and the Gothic	p. 164
The uncanny	p. 167
Layering and architecture	p. 172
Families	p. 184
Fashion	p. 193
Time zones	p. 198
Epilogue: Cyberpunk and memory	p. 204
References	p. 215
Guide to further reading	p. 237
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 251
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