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Cyberpunk 2.0: Fiction and Contemporary

por Herlander Elias

Colecção: Estudos em Comunicação
Ano de edição: 2009
ISBN: 978-989-654-021-0
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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.

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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)