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Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture Anna McFarlane (University of Glasgow, UK)

Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture By Anna McFarlane (University of Glasgow, UK)

Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture by Anna McFarlane (University of Glasgow, UK)


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A collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures in cyberpunk culture, this outstanding guide charts the rich and varied landscape of cyberpunk from the 1970s to present day.

Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture Summary

Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture by Anna McFarlane (University of Glasgow, UK)

A collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures in cyberpunk culture, this outstanding guide charts the rich and varied landscape of cyberpunk from the 1970s to present day.

The collection features key figures from a variety of disciplines, from novelists, critical and cultural theorists, philosophers, and scholars, to filmmakers, comic book artists, game creators, and television writers. Important and influential names discussed include: J. G. Ballard, Jean Baudrillard, Rosi Braidotti, Charlie Brooker, Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Donna J. Haraway, Nalo Hopkinson, Janelle Monae, Annalee Newitz, Katsuhiro Otomo, Sadie Plant, Mike Pondsmith, Ridley Scott, Bruce Sterling, and the Wachowskis. The editors also include an afterword of 'Honorable Mentions' to highlight additional figures and groups of note that have played a role in shaping cyberpunk.

This accessible guide will be of interest to students and scholars of cultural studies, film studies, literature, media studies, as well as anyone with an interest in cyberpunk culture and science fiction.

Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture Reviews

Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture is an excellent introduction to some of the writers, artists, theorists, and scientists whose influence has helped to shape today's technocultural imaginary. Readers will (re)discover cyberpunk culture's makers, from J.G. Ballard to Rosi Braidotti, from Marshall McLuhan to Richard K. Morgan, from Rudy Rucker to Joanna Russ, from Vernor Vinge to Norbert Wiener. Fifty Key Figures is both an exciting supplement to MacFarlane, Murphy, and Schmeink's recently published Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture and an important contribution to cyberculture studies in general.

Veronica Hollinger, Editor of Science Fiction Studies and Professor Emerita of Cultural Studies at Trent University, Canada

Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture brings together a truly diverse and global array of entries that explodes the limits of cyberpunk's perceived monocromatism, and heteronormative, masculine biases. The entries gathered here reveal cyberpunk to be a key cultural formation for investigating the racial, class, gender, and sexual intersections of our increasingly techno-saturated late capitalist present. Your favorite deep-cut author might be missing, but you'll discover far more than you'll miss.

Hugh Charles O'Connell, Assistant Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

From classic Movement sf writers like William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Pat Cadigan to key precursors like Samuel R. Delany, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., and Philip K. Dick and contemporary practitioners like Charlie Brooker, Lana and Lilly Wachowski, Lauren Beukes, and Janelle Monae -- with a truly global collection of writers, filmmakers, scientists, and philosophers spanning every field of art and innovation over more than a century -- McFarlane, Murphy, and Schmeink's Fifty Figures lays any possible doubt to rest: cyberpunk still rules our world.

Gerry Canavan, President of the Science Fiction Research Association and Associate Professor of English, Marquette University, USA

About Anna McFarlane (University of Glasgow, UK)

Anna McFarlane is Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Leeds, working on traumatic pregnancy and its expression in science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (2020) and is co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities. Her first monograph is a study of William Gibson's novels, Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades (2021).

Graham J. Murphy is Professor with the School of English and Liberal Studies, Faculty of Arts, Seneca College. He is co-editor of Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives (2010), Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (2018), and The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (2020). In addition to numerous book chapters and journal articles, he authored Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk for The Cambridge History of Science Fiction (2019) and a chapter on feminist cyberpunk for The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction (2022).

Lars Schmeink is Research Fellow at the Europa-Universitat Flensburg and Lead Researcher of the Science Fiction subproject of Future Work, a federally funded research project on labor in the 22nd century. He is also the author of Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society, and Science Fiction (2016), and the co-editor of Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (2018), The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (2020), and New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction (2022).

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. J. G. Ballard 2. Steven Barnes 3. Jean Baudrillard 4. Lauren Beukes 5. Rosi Braidotti 6. Charlton 'Charlie' Brooker 7. Pat Cadigan 8. David Cronenberg 09. Samuel R. Delany 10. Philip K. Dick 11. Cory Doctorow 12. Warren Ellis 13. William Gibson 14. Donna J. Haraway 15. N. Katherine Hayles 16. Nalo Hopkinson 17. Sogo Ishii 18. Ray Kurzweil 19. Jaron Lanier 20. Marshall McLuhan 21. Syd Mead 22. Misha 23. Moebius 24. Janelle Monae 25. Richard K. Morgan 26. Annalee Newitz 27. Mamoru Oshii 28. Katsuhiro Otomo 29. Marge Piercy 30. Sadie Plant 31. Mike Pondsmith 32. Thomas Pynchon 33. Rudy Rucker 34. Joanna Russ 35. Melissa Scott 36. Ridley Scott 37. Lewis Shiner 38. Masumune Shirow 39. Warren Spector 40. Stelarc 41. Neal Stephenson 42. Bruce Sterling 43. Allucquere Rosanne 'Sandy' Stone 44. James Tiptree, Jr. 45. Alvin and Wendy Toffler 46. Shinya Tsukamoto 47. Vernor Vinge 48. Lana and Lilly Wachwoski 49. Norbert Wiener 50. Shoshana Zuboff Honourable Mentions

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Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture by Anna McFarlane (University of Glasgow, UK)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-05-13
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