Beyond Cyberpunk
New Critical Perspectives
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Beyond Cyberpunk
New Critical Perspectives
About This Book
This book is a collection of essays that considers 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. The essays in explore our cyberpunk realities to soberly reconsider Eighties-era cyberpunk while also mapping contemporary cyberpunk. The 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. The 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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Table of contents
- Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Situating Cyberpunk
- Part II The Political Economy of Cyberpunk
- Part III The Politics of Embodiment in Cyberpunk
- Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index