UID:
almafu_9961152184002883
Format:
1 online resource (282 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-136-97317-6
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1-136-97318-4
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1-282-62965-4
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9786612629655
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0-203-85196-X
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 3
Content:
This book is a collection of essays that considers the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more been in need of a fiction capable of engaging with a world shaped by information technology. The essays in explore our cyberpunk realities to soberly reconsider Eighties-era cyberpunk while also mapping contemporary cyberpunk. The contributors seek to move beyond the narrow strictures of cyberpun
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sea Change(s) of Cyberpunk; Part I: Situating Cyberpunk; 1 Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk; 2 "A Rare State of Ferment" SF Controversies from the New Wave to Cyberpunk; 3 Recognizing Patterns: Gibson's Hermeneutics from the Bridge Trilogy to Pattern Recognition; 4 Journeys Beyond Being: The Cyberpunk-Flavored Novels of Jeff Noon; Part II: The Political Economy of Cyberpunk; 5 Global Economy, Local Texts: Utopian/Dystopian Tension in William Gibson's Cyberpunk Trilogy
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6 "The Mainstream Finds its Own Uses for Things": Cyberpunk and Commodification7 Why Neo Flies, and Why He Shouldn't: The Critique of Cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones's Escape Plans and M. John Harrison's Signs of Life; 8 Posthuman Melancholy: Digital Gaming and Cyberpunk; Part III: The Politics of Embodiment in Cyberpunk; 9 Feminist Cyberpunk; 10 Woken Carbon: The Return of the Human in Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy; 11 Retrofitting Frankenstein; 12 Angel(LINK) of Harlem: Techno-Spirituality in the Cyberpunk Tradition; Afterword: The World Gibson Made; Contributors; Bibliography
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-63419-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-87687-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203851968
