"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…
Allucquere Rosanne Stone examines the interface of technology and desire: from busy cyberlabs to the electronic solitude of the Internet, from "virtual cross-dressers" to the trial of a man having raped a woman by seducing one of her multiple personalities. Writing eloquently of…
Radhika Gajjala examines online community formations & subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of technologies & globalization. She concludes that virtual communities are embedded in real life communities & contexts, with human costs.
Radhika Gajjala examines online community formations & subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of technologies & globalization. She concludes that virtual communities are embedded in real life communities & contexts, with human costs.
This text explores and analyses the work of a wide range of writers, setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema and contemporary work on the culture of technology.
Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shierley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema - from Metropolis to Terminator to The …