Virtual Geographies: Cyberpunk at the Intersection of the Postmodern and Science Fiction
Sabine Heuser
Jan 2003 · Postmodern Studies Book 34 · Rodopi
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Virtual geographies is the first detailed study to offer a working definition of cyberpunk within the postmodern force field. Cyberpunk emerges as a new generic cluster within science fiction, one that has spawned many offspring in such domains as film, music, and feminism. Its central features are its adherence to a version of virtual space and a deconstructivist, punk attitude towards (high) culture, modernity, the human body and technology, from computers to prosthetics. The main proponents of cyberpunk are analyzed in depth along with the virtual landscapes they have created - William Gibson's Cyberspace, Pat Cadigan's Mindscapes and Neal Stephenson's Metaverse. Virtual reality is examined closely in all its aspects, from the characteristic narrative constructions employed to the esthetic implications of the virtual sublime' and its postmodern potential as a discursive mode.
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This buys me at least real REAL books, you know, this old stuff made of PAPER. (??)
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Sabine Heuser teaches English and Cultural Studies at Philipps University, Marburg, Germany. She received a BA Hons. in English Literature and Visual Studies from Oxford Polytechnic, England; an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto, Canada; and a doctorate from Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.
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