Cyberpunk in a Transnational Context

Tatsumi, Takayuki

Cyberpunk in a Transnational Context - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019 - 1 electronic resource (122 p.)

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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


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books978-3-03921-422-8 9783039214228 9783039214211

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