The week topic was about cyberpunk which related to our tutorial task on last week. Once again Daniel brought us some new information. Personally I like his accent, however, it was quite hard to catch the words sometime, because he speaks little bit fast. Anyway, this topic is very interested to me.
Firstly, he mentioned about the definition of cyberpunk is gritty aesthetic, high technology, questionable morality, hybrid genre. There are several points explain types of hybrid genre that I never heard before. Then, we looked at the people who wrote or writes cyberpunk, those names make me confused. But, william Gibson is very important people who influenced to cyberpunk very significantly.
William Gibson born in 17th of March 1948 in south Carolina, USA. He received a Bachelor of English from University of British Columbia in 1977. He has written many things, including several 'trilogies'.
Lastly, he discussed about burning chrome and the impact of cyberpunk. He pointed out that cyberpunk as s lingua france of digital culture has huge impact on imagining human-and-machine interconnections. Moreover, cyberpunk also has its own characteristic.
- ELECTRONIC MINDS
If you read a Cyberpunk manifesto, by Christian Kirtchev, you probably noticed the intro and outro addressing a group, called "Electronid Minds". The intention was to bring forward a group by presenting its manifesto. By the time manifesto was published (1997) digital underground groups were ruling the Bulletin Board System (BBS) domains of data and information exchange. Electronic Minds however was never announced elsewhere as a group in digital underground quality or otherwise. Instead Electronic Minds was a borader concept, designed to stretch beyond social bonds of interaction. For that essential detail of the cyberpunk manifesto and its meaning, Kristiyan Kirchev has dedicated a small paperback book available online under the name, "Electronic Minds: Hypothesis, Observations and Theory on Preprogrammed Digital Sequences in Natural Evolution to Cyberspace". -
- Chemical Illusions
New book on cyberpunk from post-communistic digital and street realities is the anthology of 13 post-cyberpunk stories and tales from Eastern Europe, by Christian As. Kirtchev. -
- CYBERPUNKS: REBOOT YOUR BRAIN
With a Cyberpunk Manifesto from Christian Kirtchev, Timothy Leary's revision developes the notion that our brains are only in operation when they are slamming bytes and bits of information back and forth—multimedia communication. They want to hook up with other brains. In his semi-anarchic philosophy, Tim Leary's editor describes a future where we don't do cyberwear to pilot the electronic fields. Work and creating will take place in `Screenland' - another word for Cyberia, cyberspace. Taking off our cyberwear to confront another human brain with naked eyeballs will be a precious personal appearance.
- Book: Spook Country by William Gibson
- Postmodern Motifs and Ambience in Cyberpunk Films
...on the Example of the Wachowski Brothers' The Matrix. An essay by Paul "nEo" Martin.
Dec 15, 2000 -
- The Singularity of AI in the Eyes of a Jester
A Comparative Analysis of the Inevitable Dawn of Artificial Intelligence as Presented in William Gibson's Idoru and Masamune Shirow's/Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell. An essay by Paul "nEo" Martin.
May 11, 2000
- The Mutated Child of Punk
Analyzing industrial (or cyberpunk) subculture as an extension of the punk movement. Examines cultural aspects, fashion, music, etc. By Jason Lawrence Fulghum.
January 26, 2000
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