Lecture 9

LECTURE 9

CYBERPUNK

· Science fiction genre based inherent in computer, genetics and body modification in the near future.
·BLADE RUNNER

Common Themes

1. hackers vs corporations
2. artificial intelligence and post-industrial dystopias

FILM ‘noir sensibility’ - black sensibility

WILLIAM GIBSON

· US/Canadian writer
· You need to re-read his stories until you get them
· Few clues as to what is going on his stories

BURNING CHROME-re-occurring themes

· The future is revolutionized by the networked computers
· Global corporations eclipse government as the source of power
· The malleability of human identity

REQUIRED READING: Wiliam Gibson’s ‘Burning Chrome’ from the short story collection Burning Chrome

MATRIX-movie

CYBERPUNK THEMES

1. technology and mythology
2. utopia and dystopia
3. cities as machines
4. technological change
5. Modernism and Post-Modernism

NEW MEDIA, INTERNET STUDIES & CYBERCULTURE

New media studies category

Popular cyberculture
Cyberculture studies
Critical cyberculture studies
Contextualizing interactions
Discoursing cyberculture
Online access and barriers
Digital design