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Mr. Robot forsakes psychological horror for political intrigue and ticking clocks, but with time running out and the FBI drawing near can fsociety pull it together fast enough...
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Josh Finney and Kat Rocha’s Utopiates by title alone tells you what this comic is about. One of the reasons that opiates are so addicting is that they instill a feeling of...
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Acheron Rising is a cyberpunk web series being developed by Brent Radford and Lucien Soulban. Radford and and Soulban have been steeped in cyberpunk since their early lives and...
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The Automaton Sequence: 5.0: ‘It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves’; The Human as Machine Movies & Anime
‘We are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.’ Donna Haraway, pp. 158 As the Automaton Sequence comes to an end, I...
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This week in cyberpunk, advances are made in advanced technologies for human augmentation. It is no surprise that with large scale augmentation on the cusp of reality, that...
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’80s slasher flicks, freak-outs out in server rooms, and shitty parents–Mr. Robot takes Darlene and Elliot to the past and gives us a glimpse of fsociety’s origins. Mr. Robot:...
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Cumulus is a book that is firmly rooted in our coming future, just as Gibson’s vision was. According to Eliot Peper, the author of the independently published Cumulus, within...
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Following the successes of Anime in their catalog (whether or not they are actually originals), Netflix has released a trailer for what is a beloved manga, BLAME! I will admit...
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The Automaton Sequence: 4.0: ‘If a male god created the world, then he certainly created woman first’; The Female Robot in Metropolis Books & Fiction
For the past four weeks, I’ve taken you on an exciting robotic adventure. From defining what the robot is, to understanding the anxiety that comes from facing one’s creation....
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Governments and corporations exert power over information and hackers strike back with malicious infiltration and interesting conversation, all while Mr. Robot tries to get us...
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With a wider focus set to capture its growing cast, Mr. Robot reminds us that everyone is lonely and miserable, and the harder you work to fix things the more you fuck it up...
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L1, L1, L1. Three consecutive dashes slam me around three different waves of projectiles. The knight clad in neon armor braces for another assault but fails to reach his mark...
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It’s April 1st, 1983, a full year before the release of Neuromancer. Across Japan, TV sets are idly tuned into the premiere of Ryosuke Takahashi’s Armored Trooper Votoms, a...
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Unreliability and action with real jeopardy is what made this show work, and Esmail's kept true to that with gaps in exposition that informs just enough to keep us watching...
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Ridley Scott’s legacy dominates the headlines this week with news about both of the upcoming Alien films, as well as more news about the sequel to Blade Runner. Cyberpunk Now...
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No More Heroes: The End of History and the Death of the Idealist Havel addresses supporters after the Velvet Revolution (December 19, 1989). Intro: Elections in the US and the...
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The Automaton Sequence: 3.0: ‘You are my creator, but I am your master’; Robot Anxiety Books & Fiction
And so here we are, the dreaded Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus week. For the purpose of this article, I am referring to Mary Shelley’s opus, and to a lesser extent...
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La Jetée is a short film, written and directed by Chris Marker in 1962, that is best known for inspiring Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys and subsequently the SyFy television series....
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Drone is a short animated film that despite being very post-apocalyptic manages to nail cyberpunk. The creators, Connie White, Vicky Stephen, Magda Radoch and Stephen McAdam,...
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Welcome to the Cyberpunk Now. Robots patrol the streets, kill criminals, and make you burgers. Robocop anyone? Cyberpunk Reality Dallas Police Deploy Robot to End Standoff A...