Beyond Cyberpunk

New Critical Perspectives

By: Graham J. Murphy (Editor), Sherryl Vint (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 May 2010 | Edition Number 1

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In this collection of essays, contributors consider 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. Contributors seek to move beyond the narrow strictures of cyberpunk as defined in the Eighties and contribute to an ongoing discussion of how to negotiate exchanges among information technologies, global capitalism, and human social existence. Essays offer a variety of perspectives on cyberpunk's diversity and how this sub-genre remains relevant amidst its transformation from a print fiction genre into a more generalized set of cultural practices, tackling the question of what it is that cyberpunk narratives continue to offer us in those intersections of literary, cultural, theoretical, academic, and technocultural environments.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction Fiction Science Fiction Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Sea Change(s) of Cyberpunk	p. xi
Situating Cyberpunk	p. 1
Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk	p. 3
"A Rare State of Ferment": SF Controversies from the New Wave to Cyberpunk	p. 29
Recognizing Patterns: Gibson's Hermeneutics from the Bridge Trilogy to Pattern Recognition	p. 46
Journeys Beyond Being: The Cyberpunk-Flavored Novels of Jeff Noon	p. 65
The Political Economy of Cyberpunk	p. 79
Global Economy, Local Texts: Utopian/Dystopian Tension in William Gibson's Cyberpunk Trilogy	p. 81
"The Mainstream Finds its Own Uses for Things": Cyberpunk and Commodification	p. 95
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	p. 116
Posthuman Melancholy: Digital Gaming and Cyberpunk	p. 135
The Politics of Embodiment in Cyberpunk	p. 155
Feminist Cyberpunk	p. 157
Woken Carbon: The Return of the Human in Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy	p. 173
Retrofitting Frankenstein	p. 191
Angel (LINK) of Harlem: Techno-Spirituality in the Cyberpunk Tradition	p. 211
Afterword: The World Gibson Made	p. 228
Contributors	p. 234
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 254
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