Cyberpunk in a Transnational Context

• Main Author: Tatsumi, Takayuki (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: n/a; virtual reality; Tobi Hirotaka; collage; cyberpunk; co-productions; virtual worlds; European cinema; reception history; Metropia; transnational cinema; layers; manga; cinematism; Lo Tek; audience; 2000s; techno-Orientalism; outlaw technologist; YLEM artists using science and technology; animation; Masaki Gor?; "rich sight"; Germany; extraterritorial; proscenium views; care; Japanese science fiction; United States; post-utopia; comics; flattened screens; William Gibson; science fiction; animatism; post-apocalyptic narrative; genre; SCAN; HyperCard; bOING bOING; nostalgia; global capitalism; virtual idol; MONDO 2000; Timothy Leary; Walter Benjamin; visuality; fractal space; Marshall McLuhan; Renaissance; Hyperart Thomasson; Pattern Recognition; dystopia; Kowloon Walled City; participatory aesthetics; Guerrilla Games; translation; intertextuality; nuclear politics; end of history; Horizon: Zero Dawn; detritus; Blade Runner
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Summary

Mike Mosher's "Some Aspects of Californian Cyberpunk" vividly reminds us of the influence of West Coast counterculture on cyberpunks, with special emphasis on 1960s theoretical gurus such as Timothy Leary and Marshall McLuhan, who explored the frontiers of inner space as well as the global village. Frenchy Lunning's "Cyberpunk Redux: Dérives in the Rich Sight of Post-Anthropocentric Visuality" examines how the heritage of Ridley Scott's techno-noir film

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (122 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-03921-422-8
9783039214228
9783039214211

Access

Open Access