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This past week in cyberpunk we witnessed conglomerates and police getting a little too well connected, a coded justice, and a Jester who isn’t laughing. Let’s get to the news....
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The Internet comes under massive attack, the US Government declares the future dystopian, and cyberpunk media continues to help paint this possible future, this week in...
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Super-powered bugs, a future in the stars, and repairing damaged bodies with inventive technologies. News doesn’t seem so bad this Friday, so let’s take a look at what happened...
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Cold War tensions return while simultaneously AI chat-bots dominate the news. We see more information about Battle Angel Alita and Blade Runner 2 finally has an official title....
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“Battle of Lights, Coney Island”, by Joseph Stella Think about an artistic movement that praised the machine, technology, and speculated about the future: that saw in those the...
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Cyberpunk news over the past few days has brought us eSports, impressive hacks and 400lb people in bed. So don’t lock yourself way and hide. Come check out what happened this...
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This week in cyberpunk the mega-corporations are out in force, but at least we have excellent media distractions to keep our minds busy. Ghost in the Shell, The Machine, and...
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Your cyberpunk news this Friday includes some junk software, bad laws, dangerous corporate mergers, and a whole lot of hacking going on. There’s so much to get to, so let’s see...
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The old Blade Runner is new again, not to mention a director who all to aware of the legacy he is faced with upholding. Lots of news in the cyberpunk media this week and as...
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Street artists may be able to run, but hackers can’t seem to escape the law. This is what happened last week in cyberpunk. Cyberpunk Reality Guccifer Gets Sentenced Marcel...
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Sean Nolan is the author of a short story collection called Shades of Grey. It was released in 2011 as Occupy Wall Street was rising to its heights. Shades of Grey’s themes...
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We all know the text. We all know about William Gibson, the supposed Elvis of cyberpunk. But for those punkers who don’t, Neuromancer was an underground success, depicting the...
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This week in cyberpunk we get a sneak peak at some upcoming cyberpunk/dystopian television alongside developments in our world that not so long ago would have been firmly in...
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Climate change takes lives, cops cozy up to tech to launch precrime, and hackers slide in your DMs. This is what happened last week in cyberpunk. Cyberpunk Reality Deaths Hit...
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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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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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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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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...