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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Cyberpunk"”.
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Cyberpunk visions of the future city
… explored by a subset of science fiction dubbed, Cyberpunk. Writers of cyberpunk fiction have extrapolated the present urban condition to expose a cautionary dystopian vision of cities and urban life in the near-future. Generally, cyberpunks envision the technologically- enhanced future city as an …
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Evolution of Cyberspace as a Landscape in Cyberpunk Novels
… first computers were networked. Interestingly, cyberpunk, a sub-genre of science fiction, depicted cyberspace many years before mainstream society had ever conceived of it. This thesis explores the changes in science fictional representations of cyberspace by examining William Gibson's …
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Living on the Edge of Burnout: Defamiliarizing Neoliberalism Through Cyberpunk Science Fiction
A dominant trend in cyberpunk scholarship draws from Fredric Jameson's diagnosis of postmodernism as the logic of late capitalism, using Jameson's spatial pastiche, schizophrenic temporality, and waning of affect, along with Jameson's characterization of Baudrillard's simulacrum to interpret …
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An analysis of selected ""cyberpunk"" works by William Gibson, placed in a cultural and socio-political context
… fiction. It was used to codify and promote the ""cyberpunk"" movement in science fiction at that time, which this thesis also briefly studies. Such a study (at such a relatively late date, given the rapid pace of change in popular culture) seems valuable because a great deal of self-serving and …
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Orion's Run
… man relentlessly pushes through an emerging cyberpunk world with his sickly street-smart girlfriend, while on the run from a scorned ex-girlfriend and an immoral scientist that plays God.</p>
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Gritty Girls Undone: The Unraveling of Gender Fluidity in Pat Cadigan's Synners
… of representations of gender fluidity in cyberpunk author Pat Cadigan's novel Synners (1991). The thesis argues that while Cadigan's novel is an important experiment, it lacks consistency in postulating a working gender-fluid society. Drawing upon the work of Judith Butler, Kaye Mitchell, …
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Imanências espectrais: reflexão sobre o pós-digital nas artes sonoras
… nutridas por filosofias cyberpunk, tecnoculturais e acelaracionistas, essenciaisparahistoriar o pós-digital, nos aspetos, estéticos, metapolíticos e imaginativos. Esta investigaçãoéaindaacompanhada de desenvolvimento de projetos práticos, que envolvemprodução …
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Discovering and Personalizing Artistic Styles with Generative Models
… transcending conventional categories like 'cyberpunk' or 'Picasso,' that reflect the collective creative exploration of users worldwide. Building on these discoveries, we assess personalization methods to align generated content with individual aesthetic preferences and introduce a style …
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Technologies and Utopias: the cyberflâneur and the experience of being online
… are: the cyberflAneur, cyberfldneuse, webgrrl, cyberpunk, netizen, cybernaut and surfer. Their detailed analysis provides the second part of the thesis. The aspects referred to in the first part are all part of these analyses. Final reflections about the user types' role as specific …
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FICCIÓN ESPECULATIVA EN NARRADORES CUBANOS DE LA GENERACIÓN CERO
… third chapter, I study two narratives of Cuban cyberpunk, Veredas (2006) by Michael Encinosa Fú and Espejuelos para ver inside (2018) by Maielis González Fernández. The aforementioned written work utilizes hierarchical systems that are sought to establish how the social, technological, ethical …
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Transparent cultures: Imagined users and the politics of software design (1975-2012)
… not the only one to imagine such a future. The cyberpunk writings of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling respond to the cultural constraints of transparent design. In cyberpunk’s dystopias, transparency reifies technocratic power, granting only a small number of corporate actors control over …
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American gadgets: cybernetics, consumer electronics, and twentieth-century us fiction
Challenging the argument that liberal humanism faces extinction in the face of ubiquitous digital technologies, my dissertation analyzes the ways in which consumer electronics reinscribe the human subject as a privileged category in the information age. Through spaces like the Matrix, Windows 7, or …
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Hive city
This thesis contains two parts: a craft paper on interiority and four chapters of a new adult dystopian fiction novel. The craft paper focuses on interiority by conveying the protagonist’s unique perspective of the novel’s world by analyzing two dystopian fiction novels, No Coincidence by Rafał …