The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk

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The music is from the soundtrack of Serial Experiments Lain (1998)

Movies shown:
Blade Runner (1982)
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Class of 1999 (1990)
Lawnmower Man (1992)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Hackers (1995)

Recommended readings:

On "cyber-theory" in general:
M. Featherstone, R. Burrows - "Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk - Cultures of Technological Embodiment" - https://www.amazon.com/Cyberspace-Cyb...
D. Kellner - "Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Post-Modern" - https://www.amazon.com/Media-Culture-...

By Donna Haraway:
D. Haraway - "A Cyborg Manifesto" - http://people.oregonstate.edu/~vanlon...
D. Haraway - "Simians, Cyborgs, and Women" - https://monoskop.org/images/f/f3/Hara...

By Fredric Jameson:
F. Jameson - "Archaeologies of the Future" - https://libcom.org/files/fredric-jame...
F. Jameson - "Cognitive Mapping" - http://www.rainer-rilling.de/gs-villa...

By Sadie Plant:
S. Plant - "Zeroes and Ones" - https://monoskop.org/images/d/d1/Plan...