The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08332-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 474 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 887 g

Reihe: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions

In this companion, an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements, providing readers with snapshots of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk as culture.

With technology seamlessly integrated into our lives and our selves, and social systems veering towards globalization and corporatization, cyberpunk has become a ubiquitous cultural formation that dominates our twenty-first century techno-digital landscapes. The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture traces cyberpunk through its historical developments as a literary science fiction form to its spread into other media such as comics, film, television, and video games. Moreover, seeing cyberpunk as a general cultural practice, the Companion provides insights into photography, music, fashion, and activism. Cyberpunk, as the chapters presented here argue, is integrated with other critical theoretical tenets of our times, such as posthumanism, the Anthropocene, animality, and empire. And lastly, cyberpunk is a vehicle that lends itself to the rise of new futurisms, occupying a variety of positions in our regionally diverse reality and thus linking, as much as differentiating, our perspectives on a globalized technoscientific world.

With original entries that engage cyberpunk’s diverse ‘angles’ and its proliferation in our life worlds, this critical reference will be of significant interest to humanities students and scholars of media, cultural studies, literature, and beyond.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

McFarlane, Anna

Schmeink, Lars

Murphy, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

01. Cyberpunk as Cultural Formation Anna McFarlane, Graham J. Murphy and Lars Schmeink I: Cultural Texts 02. Literary PrecursorsRob Latham03. The Mirrorshades Collective Graham J. Murphy 04. Bruce Sterling: Schismatrix Plus (Case Study)Maria Goicoechea05. Feminist CyberpunkLisa Yaszek¿06. Pat Cadigan: Synners (Case Study)Ritch Calvin07. Post-CyberpunkChristopher D. Kilgore08. Charles Stross: Accelerando (Case Study)Gerry Canavan09. SteampunkJess Nevins10. BiopunkLars Schmeink11. Non-SF CyberpunkJaak Tomberg12. Comic BooksDavid M Higgins and Matthew Iung13. American Flagg! (Case Study)Corey K. Creekmur14. MangaShige (CJ) Suzuki15. Early Cyberpunk FilmAndrew M. Butler 16. Strange Days (Case Study)Anna McFarlane17. Digital Effects in CinemaLars Schmeink18. Blade Runner 2049 (Case Study)Matthew Flisfeder19. AnimeKumiko Saito20. Akira and Ghost in the Shell (Case Study)Martin de la Iglesia and Lars Schmeink21. TelevisionSherryl Vint22. Max Headroom: Twenty Minutes into the Future (Case Study)Scott Rogers23. Video GamesPawel Frelik24. Deus Ex (Case Study)Christian Knöppler25. Tabletop Role-Playing GamesCurtis D. Carbonell26. Shadowrun (Case Study)Hamish Cameron27. Photography and Digital ArtGrace Halden28. FashionStina Attebery29. MusicNicholas C. Laudadio30. Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer (Case Study)Christine Capetola II: Cultural Theory31. Simulation and SimulacraRebecca Haar and Anna McFarlane32. GothicismAnya Heise-von der Lippe33. Posthumanism(s)Julia Grillmayr34. MarxismHugh Charles O’Connell35. Cyborg FeminismPatricia Melzer36. Queer TheoryWendy Gay Pearson37. Critical Race TheoryIsiah Lavender III38. AnimalitySeán McCorry39. Ecology in the AnthropoceneVeronica Hollinger40. EmpireJohn Rieder41. Indigenous FuturismsCorinna Lenhardt42. AfrofuturismIsiah Lavender III and Graham J. Murphy43. Veillance Society Chris Hables Gray44. ActivismColin Milburn III: Cultural Locales45. Latin AmericaM. Elizabeth Ginway46. Cuba’s Cyberpunk HistoriesJuan C. Toledano Redondo47. Japan as Cyberpunk ExoticismBrian Ruh48. IndiaSuparno Banerjee49. GermanyEvan Torner50. France and Québec Amy J. Ransom

Über Autor(innen)

Anna McFarlane is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow University with a project entitled "Products of Conception: Science Fiction and Pregnancy, 1968-2015." She has worked on the Wellcome Trust-funded Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project and holds a Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews on William Gibson’s science fiction novels. She is the editor of Adam Roberts: Critical Essays (2016) and has served as blog and reviews editor for the journal BMJ Medical Humanities.

Graham J. Murphy is a professor with the School of English and Liberal Studies (Faculty of Arts) at Seneca College (Toronto). In addition to more than two dozen articles published in a variety of edited collections and peer-review journals, he is also co-editor of Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (2018), Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives (2010), and co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion (2006).

Lars Schmeink is project lead at the "Science Fiction" subproject of "FutureWork," a research network funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research. He was the inaugural president of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung from 2010 to 19 and has published extensively on science fiction and posthumanism. He is the author of Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society, and Science Fiction (2016) and co-editor of Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (2018).