by Herlander Elias
Collection: Ars
Year of edition: 2009
ISBN: 978-989-654-021-0
Price of the print edition: € 20
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Synopsis
I first published this book in 1999, a few months before the The Matrix motion picture was released. This was my first book, and there’s no other like our first one. So in the past decade I have been updating this Cyberpunk 2.0: Fiction And Contemporary. And instead of seeing it turning obsolete I witnessed it become very real, present and obvious.
This Second edition of Cyberpunk 2.0: Fiction And Contemporary is about the “reloading matrix” of media, how videoclip culture globalized itself, and also how new media and online fashions crossed each other’s paths. Science-Fiction aesthetics are preceding, as well as they’re contemporary and beyond any image of the future we might have. Where or when we’re heading now, there’s an Asian megalopolis skyline awaiting for our visit. In such places, much of the cyberpunk fiction is real, the icons of cybernetic world are among us, and high-tech gear is just part of the set of everyday life. Some new trends came up like banding dance culture, online gaming, mobile Web, anime graphic cultures, culture jamming, and many others as Tetsoo’s motion-design. The fact is that hypermodern digital shockwaves are still on the loose. As a matter of fact, the future is what we make of it.
Index
INTRODUCTION: THE MATRIX RELOADING (update)
1
FOREWORD: WHAT DOES THE FUTURE RESERVES TO SUCH A PRESENT? (update)
7
I - INTRODUCING THE CYBERPUNK IMAGINARY
11
CYBERPUNK – BETWEEN PUNKS AND CYBORGS
WHY CYBER?
AND WHY PUNK?
THE RELEVANCY OF CYBERPUNK
ABOUT CYBERSPACE AND THE MATRIX
THE CYBERPUNK VISUAL ARTIFACTS
THE CYBERPUNK PREMISES
II - FAMOUS CYBERPUNK ICONS
57
BLADE RUNNER: RIDLEY SCOTT’S 1982 MOVIE
NEUROMANCER: WILLIAM GIBSON’S 1984 NOVEL
III - OTHER CYBERPUNK FICTION
67
COMICS
AKIRA
DARK MINDS (update)
GHOST IN THE SHELL
67
SONGS
NEUROMANCER (BILLY IDOL, 1993)
SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (BILLY IDOL, 1993)
103
MOVIES
DARK ANGEL (update)
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE (update)
JOHNNY MNEMONIC
MAX HEADROOM
STRANGE DAYS
TERMINATOR 2 3-D: BATTLE ACROSS TIME (update)
TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES (update)
THE MATRIX TRILOGY (update)
THE TERMINATOR
TOTAL RECALL
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
73
VIDEOGAMES
ANOTHER WORLD
BENEATH A STEEL SKY
BLADE RUNNER
CYBERSPACE
DELTA V
ENTER THE MATRIX (update)
GHOST IN THE SHELL
INTERPHASE
MIRROR’S EDGE (update)
SKYNET (update)
SYNDICATE/SYNDICATE WARS
THE MATRIX: ONLINE (update)
THE MATRIX: PATH OF NEO (update)
THE TERMINATOR: FUTURE SHOCK (update)
107
IV - CONTEMPORARY CYBERPUNK FIGURES
131
ROMANTIC CYBORGS
FUTURE SHOCK: NO FUTURE VERSUS NEW FUTURE
THE END OR GENERALIZING CYBERPUNK?
GRAFFITER: THE INTERTEXTUALITY HIP-HOPPER
RHACKER: WHEN ROCKER AND HACKER ARE CIBORGED
RAVER: THE ACID POLYRHYTHM SURFER
FASHION PUNKS IN MATRIX STYLE (update)
BANKSY: POSTCOMPUTER GRAFFITI (update)
TETSOO: MOTION DESIGN SHOCKWAVES (update)
CULTURE JAMMING: REDESIGN CORPORATE LOGOS (update)
TECKTONIK: BRANDING DANCE CULTURE (update)
V - THE ACOUSTIC CYBERSPACES OF PRESENT DAY’S ELECTROCULTURE
233
SOUNDSCAPES: THE SONIC LANDSCAPES
TECHNO: THE CYBERDELIC MUSIC
RAVES: THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF THE 90’s
AFTERWORD: SCANNING THE FUTURE (update)
REFERENCES
275
BOOKS
ONLINE DOCUMENTS (update)
MUSIC (update)
FILMOGRAPHY
VIDEOGRAPHY (update)
GLOSSARY (update)
