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The term "cyberpunk" entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer". Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, this study argues, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, multinational machinations, frenetic bursts of prose, collisions of style: although emerging largely from science fiction, these features of cyberpunk writing are integrally related to the aims and innovations of the literary avant-garde. By bringing together original fiction by contemporary writers (William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Don Delillo, Kathy Acker, J.G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany), critical commentary by some of the major theorists of postmodern art and culture (Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Timothy Leary and Jean-Francois Lyotard), and work by major practitioners of cyberpunk (William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling), the study attempts to reveal an ongoing dialogue in contemporary culture. What emerges most strikingly from the study is a shared preoccupation with the force of technology in shaping modern life. It is precisely this concern, according to the text, that has put science fiction, typically the province of technological art, at the forefront of creative explorations of our age.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Desert of the Real / Larry McCaffery 1 Cyberpunk 101: A Schematic Guide to Storming the Reality Studio / Richard Kadrey and Larry McCaffery 17 Fiction and Poetry Beyond the Extinction of Human Life (from Empire of the Senseless) / Kathy Acker 33 From Crash / J.G. Ballard 41 Mother and I Would Like to Know (from The Wild Boys) / William S. Burroughs 44 Rock On / Pat Cadigan 48 Among the Blobs / Samuel R. Delany 56 From White Noise / Don DeLillo 63 From Neuromancer / William Gibson 65 Fistic Hermaphrodites / Rob Hardin 75 Microbes / Rob Hardin 76 Penetrabit: Slime Temples / Rob Hardin 77 nerve terminals / Rob Hardin 79 Max Headroom / Harold Jaffe 80 From Straight Fiction / Thom Jurek 85 The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche (from Metrophage) / Richard Kadrey 87 Office of the Future (from Dad's Nuke) / Marc Laidlaw 98 I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot (from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist) / Mark leyner 102 From Plus / Joseph McElroy 109 Wire Movement #9 / Misha 112 Wire for Two Tims / Misha 114 From Easy Travel to Other Planets / Ted Mooney 116 Frame 137 / Jim O'Barr 118 From The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon 122 From Software / Rudy Rucker 125 From Life During Wartime / Lucius Shepard 132 Stoked / Lewis Shiner 134 Wolves of the Plateau / John Shirley 139 Twenty Evocations / Bruce Sterling 154 The Marc Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar Zaibatsu: 2-1-'16 (from Schismatrix) / Bruce Sterling 162 The Indigo Engineers (from The Rainbow Stories) / William T. Vollmann 168 Non-Fiction Before the Lights Came On: Observations of a Synergy / Steve Brown 173 The Automation of the Robot (from Simulations) / Jean Baudrillard 178 Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. 182 From Of Grammatology / Jacques Derrida 194 Yin and Yang Duke It Out / Joan Gordon 196 Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger 203 From Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism / Fredric Jameson 219 Television and the Triumph of Culture (from The Postmodern Scene) / Arthur Kroker and David Cook 229 Bet On It: Cyber/video/punk/performance / Brooks Landon 239 The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot / Timothy Leary 245 The Postmodern (from The Postmodern Condition) / Jean-Francois Lyotard 259 An Interview with William Gibson / Larry McCaffery 263 Cutting Up: Cyberpunk, Punk Music, and Urban Decontextualizations / Larry McCaffery 286 POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM / Brian McHale 308 The Wars of the Coin's Two Halves: Bruce Sterling's Mechanist/Shaper Narratives / Tom Maddox 324 Frothing the Synaptic Bath / David Porush 331 Literary MTV / George Slusser 334 Preface from Mirrorshades / Bruce Sterling 343 On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF / Darko Suvin 349 The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades / Takayuki Tatsumi 366 Bibliography 375 Contributors 385

Review :
"[A] brilliant new compiliation of fiction and nonfiction . . . that you've just "got" to read. . . . [The] thesis is simple as a whitehot razor blade: we don't "read" science fiction, we "live "it. . . . You can't help getting excited about this collection. You just can't." --Lance Olsen," Mondo 2000"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822311683
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Weight: 594 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822311682
  • Publisher Date: 27 Nov 1991
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction


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