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 Preface to Mirrorshades
The cyberpunks as a group are steeped in the lore and tradition of the SF field.
Cyberpunk is widely known for its telling use of detail, its carefully constructed intricacy, its willingness to carry extrapolation into the fabric of daily life.
Cyberpunk is a natural extension of elements already present in science fiction, elements sometimes buried but always seething with potential.
project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/mirrorshades_preface.html   (2469 words)

  
  Cyberpunk - Wikinfo
Cyberpunk (from Cyber(netics) + punk) is a sub-genre of science fiction which uses elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, Japanese anime, and post-modernist prose.
Cyberpunk's world is a sinister, dark place with networked computers that dominate every aspect of life.
Cyberpunk, in sharp contrast, shows the seamy underbelly of corporatocracy, and the Sisyphean battle against their power by disillusioned renegades.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Cyberpunk   (1963 words)

  
 Cyberpunk Fashion
However, it is noted that the best thing about being a cyberpunk is that you can wear anything you like, or even get away with wearing anything.
Cyberpunks dress to kill in a fusion of fantasy, hi-tech and survival wear.
A vision for the cyberpunk wear in the early 21st.
project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/fashion.html   (108 words)

  
 ~aeon~
Although specific discussions of cyberpunk literature and film are few, many of the attitudes and beliefs presented within and attributed to the 13th generation are shared by cyberpunk writers and their protagonists.
Although the cyberpunk character is often criticized for his inability to use rhetoric as effectively as, for instance, Satan in Paradise Lost, Shiner defends the cyberpunk's speech patterns, asserting that some of these street punks are remarkably clear and efficient, articulate in a non-traditional way.
Cyberpunk characters always seem to possess either greater intelligence or greater physical power, which seems to me to indicate that they are not mere "anti-heroes".
www.ninjaburger.com /~aeon/thesis/thesis21.shtml   (12234 words)

  
  postcyberpunk
Cyberpunk's lasting impact came not from the milieu's details, but the method of their deployment, the immersive worldbuilding technique that gave it such a revelatory quality (what John Clute, speaking of Pat Cadigan, called "the burning presence of the future").
Cyberpunk realized that the old SF stricture of "alter only one thing and see what happens" was hopelessly outdated, a doctrine rendered irrelevant by the furious pace of late 20th century technological change.
Yes, cyberpunk was about the early 1980s, while postcyberpunk is about the 1990s, and cyberpunk was largely written by people in their 20s and 30s, postcyberpunk by people in their late 30s and early 40s.
www.shawnnacol.com /pP-postcyberpunk.htm   (1575 words)

  
 Matrix moving into the matrix
Cyberpunk, as the movement is called, is referred to by scholars as the apotheosis of postmodernism, for Cyberpunk represents the far-reaching effects of life in a postmodern society.
Cyberpunk is part of a trend in science fiction that began in the 1960s that focused on the implosion of humanity and is fueled by the desire for dissolution.
Fashion trends of the late twentieth century are a prime example of this reemergence of ideas.
www.fuchsiashockz.co.uk /articles/cyberpunk/matrix_moving_into_the_matrix.php   (5259 words)

  
 RTalsorian Games
I'll show you how, in true cyberpunk fashion, you can find your own use for the ideas that have gone before, recycling the plots of these classic films for use in your Cyberpunk campaigns.
And everyone learns that the guy holding the cards is the cyberpunk, as Snake pulls a switcheroo and gives them the wrong tape, destroying the precious original as he wanders off into the sunset.
A true cyberpunk scholar, Aeon has spent years studying the progression of the genre, writing stories steeped in cyber-mythology, and generally alternating between hoping it all comes true, and having nightmares that it already has.
www.talsorian.com /cp_cinema_1.shtml   (2378 words)

  
 Cyberpunk Fiction: The Visionary Kaleidoscope
Cyberpunk concentrates on this theory to the extent that whole plots and characters center around the changes in culture and fashions that come about.
Cyberpunk is thus rebellious, and the rebels necessarily mine the underground for ammunition.
Cyberpunk translates the style of exposing the roots of science fiction to an illustration of a density of information brought forth into a wave called "futureshock." An example of futureshock would be the Leaning Tower of Pisa trailing with fiber optic wires.
mars.superlink.net /neptune/Cyberpnk.html   (1147 words)

  
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Cyberpunk subculture is the first subculture which doesn't have a particular place of congregation - its a suburban phenomenon made possible by the networks.
In the case of cyberpunk, the networked world of cyberspace, the interactive world of multimedia and the new sensoria of virtual reality will all owe a little to their willingness to be the test pigs for these emergent technologies.
Cyberpunk is a reflection of this contradiction Q on the one hand it is a drop out culture dedicated to pursing the dream of freedom through appropriate technology.
www.eff.org /Net_culture/Cyberpunk/subculture_and_cpunk.article   (1746 words)

  
 Cyberpunk at AllExperts
During the early and mid-1980s, cyberpunk became a fashionable topic in academic circles, where it began to be the subject of postmodernist investigation.
Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, and postmodernist prose to describe the often nihilistic underground side of an electronic society.
Cyberpunk literature is often used as a metaphor for the present day-worries about the failings of corporations, corruption in governments, alienation and surveillance technology.
en.allexperts.com /e/c/cy/cyberpunk.htm   (4147 words)

  
 Fashion Portfolio   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Vampire fashion - Vampire fashion or vampyre fashion is generally a mixture of Victorian fashion with Gothic fashion.
Fashion Awareness Direct - Based in London, Fashion Awareness Direct, FAD, was set up in 1997 as an independent non-profit making organisation started by a number of individuals from different backgrounds (designers, fashion students, people from the industry and members of the public) who shared a common interest in fashion.
Fashion photography - Fashion photography is a specific type of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items.
po18.mnmhobbies.com /fashionportfolio.html   (286 words)

  
 Exploring Dystopia: Cyberpunk   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cyberpunk writers have an almost morbid fascination for ethically controversial and possibly dangerous scientific fields as genetic engineering, robotics, neurological interfaces, bio-mechanics, body implants, cosmetic surgery, bionics, cloning, designer drugs, cryogenics, artificial intelligence, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and so on and so forth.
Cyberpunk writers are always eager to provoke, but it should be stressed that the provocation usually is a means, not a goal in itself.
Cyberpunk is mainly a literary label today, but it influenced science fiction cinema heavily for many years, and still does in many respects.
hem.passagen.se /replikant/cyberpunk.htm   (3796 words)

  
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Cyberpunk was the first genre of science fiction to be born in an information society and this is clearly reflected in the future it portrays.
Cyberpunk writers believe that around 1980, science and technology flew from the ivory towers they had been "chained-up" in and found their way to the hearts and wants of the public.
The alienated outsider's battle against a totalitarian system is a common theme in science fiction and cyberpunk in particular, though in conventional science fiction the totalitarian systems tend to be sterile, ordered, and state controlled.
www.lycos.com /info/cyberpunk--technology.html   (657 words)

  
 Cybersociology Four - Cyberpunks: A Sociological Analysis
Cyberpunks use their technical skills, without applying physical force or theft of material objects, searching for theories, models, paradigms, metaphors, pictures and symbols, in order to get along in reality.
Cyberpunk literature is concerned with this kind of human beings and how they use the technological system for their own advantage.
Cyberpunk stories are frequently set in urban areas, with a dark atmosphere and a pessimistic mood.
www.cybersociology.com /files/4_Cyberpunks_Wiemker.html   (2522 words)

  
 Cyberpunk as Literature
Cyberpunk writers are fascinated by popculture as a skill, not just popular culture as a topic of academic interest, "In pop culture, practice comes first; theory follows limping in its tracks," writes Bruce Sterling.
Cyberpunk is a bringing together of the "armogedon" futures of the sixtiess with the "technology will save us" veiws of the fifties, leaving worlds that, although seeming bleak and hopeless, are still filled with marvels beyond imagining.
Cyberpunk is the fulfillment of postmodernism within the narrow confines of the science fiction genre.
www.ctraces.com /Circuit_Traces/CT2_5/cyberpunk.html   (2822 words)

  
 Cyberpunk Crossover - Cyberpunk-Horror
In view of the dark and bleak yet fast paced quality of Cyberpunk, it is not surprising that the Cyberpunk mythos has been crossed with a similarily bleak but alluring mythology, the vampire.
Cyberpunk is generally not about outer space (except for space stations in near-earth orbit).
The idea of cyberpunk is that things will come to a head long before man explores the universe.
www.kheper.net /topics/cyberpunk/cyberpunk_xover.htm   (220 words)

  
 cyberpunk - definition by dict.die.net
On the one hand, self-described cyberpunks too often seem to be shallow trendoids in fl leather who have substituted enthusiastic blathering about technology for actually learning and *doing* it.
On the other hand, at least cyberpunks are excited about the right things and properly respectful of hacking talent in those who have it.
On the one hand, self-described cyberpunks too often seem to be shallow trendoids in fl leather who have substituted enthusiastic blathering about technology for actually learning and _doing_ it.
dict.die.net /cyberpunk   (394 words)

  
 Cyberpunk as Counterculture
The cyberpunks had a curious enthusiasm for neurochemicals, especially ones that they claimed increased energy, intelligence, or memory, although they rejected the idea that drugs might lead to some kind of peace or mystical harmony.
Cyberpunk apparently fails in this regard, because their seem to be no united "goals" for the movement.
While few cyberpunks are explicitly politically active in the classical sense (most do not vote), in their discussions with each other, an implicit politics does emerge.
www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/Cyberpunk_as_Counterculture.htm   (3306 words)

  
 Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk's protagonists are hackers, rockers, and other cultural rebels, clinging to a cult of individualism in a culture characterized by corporate control and mass conformity.
That both versions of cyberpunk are plausible and illuminating suggests how closely these writers were engaging with traditions of thought in the humanities and social sciences.
The Cyberpunks sought to do for science fiction what the punk movement had done for rock and roll -- return to the old standards, strip them down to their bare bones, and rebuild the genre from the ground up.
web.mit.edu /m-i-t/science_fiction/jenkins/jenkins_5.html   (1602 words)

  
 Worlds Away | Bringing You The Future
But cyberpunk, though mostly known as a division of science fiction, it also spawned the cyber movement.
Matrix type fashion, with long leather trenchcoats and sunglasses, can also be referred to as cyberpunk.
There isn’t really a specific genre of music that is known as cyberpunk, but the movement heavily favors electronica, futurepop, industrial, power noise, trance, techno, and synthpop.
www.freewebs.com /worlds_away/cyberpunk.htm   (276 words)

  
 Cyberpunk Fashion Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on Cyberpunk Fashion
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 joey's journal
Mythology has been integral to cyberpunk consciousness since its inception; cyberpunks dream of a world in which they have brought their fantastical future to life, in which the lines between the virtual and actual blur, and where science fiction has become a reality.
Where cyberpunks were content to be end users in the system of the future, hackers have always been preoccupied with understanding the technology of “now.” While there is great crossover between cyberpunks and hackers, the pervading utilitarianism of hacking culture is absent from cyberpunk literature, fashion, and community.
By appropriating cyberpunk imagery, pop culture indirectly adopted many tenets of cyberpunk aesthetic and hacker ideology; the appreciation of science fiction as reality, utilitarian post-world fashions as mainstream trend, and most importantly, a leaning towards the belief and appreciation of the freedom to access information.
www.blurty.com /users/spectacle   (6603 words)

  
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During the early and mid-1980s, cyberpunk became a fashionable topic in academic circles, where it began to be the subject of postmodernist investigation.
Beginning in the early 1990s, trends in fashion and music were labeled as cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk music is perhaps the hardest aspect of the culture to define because cyberpunk is essentially a literary genre.
www.lycos.com /info/cyberpunk--genre.html   (283 words)

  
 RPGnet : Review of Cyberpunk The Roleplaying Game of the Dark Future 2.0.2.0 The Second Edition Version 2.01
I just picked up Cyberpunk and I must say that despite the fact that the system is at its core around 15 years out of date I was still very impressed.
Never Fade Away is a Cyberpunk short story that covers a few different archetypes as well as giving a taste of the variety of possible encounters in the Cyberpunk world.
One of the staples of the Cyberpunk world provided is that news is distributed quickly via fax to various locations across the city, which essentially creates a real-time newspaper.
www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/10/10315.phtml   (4209 words)

  
 History of science fiction - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Counter to this trend toward gritty, near-future stories as embodied by the Cyberpunks was the revisiting by a number of authors of the tradition of Space opera.
No longer is cyberpunk a ghettoized tribe within science fiction, but an integral part of the field whose interactions with other parts have been the primary theme of science fiction at the turn of the century.
This entrance of cyberpunk into mainstream culture has led to the introduction of cyberpunk's stylistic motifs to the masses, particularly the cyberpunk fashion style.
www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/History_of_science_fiction   (4258 words)

  
 Fiction Factor - Spotlight on Neometropolis
Typically, cyberpunk stories are set in the present or near future with protagonists who live on the edges of society.
The cyberpunk universe is typically over-industrialized and dystopian.
The links to the left will take you to something most e-zines don't have, a forum for lovers of cyberpunk to discuss the genre, their own writing, and anything that pertains to the cyberpunk world.
www.fictionfactor.com /zines/neometropolis.html   (502 words)

  
 Cyberpunk fashion   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This is a summary of an article on Cyberpunk fashion.
'Cyberpunk fashion' is a term that can be used to refer to fashion scenes and subcultures influenced by the concepts of cyberpunk, i., cyber and Industrial fashion.
The fashion presented in The Matrix can be classed as cyberpunk, and has arguably gone on to influence the concept of cyberpunk itself.
wiki-shorts.freestat.pl /11-934-Cyberpunk_fashion.html   (107 words)

  
 LEARY AND CYBERPUNK
Their texts are fast, incisive, ironic and disconcerting, and relate time, reality, and changes that are being wrought in the present by new technologies and computer science.
The cyberpunks are revolutionary only in name, all they really care about is selling as many of their books as the can....
The word CyberPunk connects Herbert Weiner's notions of cybernetics and control systems with the idea of someone who uses technology for personal growth, freedom, and unauthorized communication, according to Leary.
www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/Leary-cpunk.html   (2811 words)

  
 Shopping Resources - Cyberpunk   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cyberpunk site with a focus on information rather than multimedia including reviews and recommendations as well as Cyberpunk lifestyle.
A cyberpunk webpage with short works of cyberpunk fiction by freelance writers.
The EYE was a semi-annual periodical devoted to interviews and criticism of modern science fiction.
ukuk.dyndns.org /directory/903/903.htm   (210 words)

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