Pat Cadigan's Virtual Mindscapes

Author: Heuser Sabine  

Publisher: Rodopi

ISSN: 0923-0483

Source: Postmodern Studies, Vol.34, Iss.1, 2003-08, pp. : 127-170

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Abstract

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 central features are its adherence to a version of virtual space and a deconstructivist, punk attitude towards (high) culture, modernity, the human body and technology, from computers to prosthetics.