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Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology - Anna McFarlane

Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology

Seeing through the Mirrorshades

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Buch | Hardcover
168 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-53568-1 (ISBN)
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Connecting William Gibson's relational model of ‘gestalt’ psychology and imagery with that of the posthuman networked identities found in cyberpunk, the author draws out relations with key cultural moments of the last 40 years: postmodernism, posthumanism, 9/11, and the Anthropocene.
This book traces developments in cyberpunk culture through a close engagement with the novels of the ‘godfather of cyberpunk’, William Gibson. Connecting his relational model of ‘gestalt’ psychology and imagery with that of the posthuman networked identities found in cyberpunk, the author draws out relations with key cultural moments of the last 40 years: postmodernism, posthumanism, 9/11, and the Anthropocene.

By identifying cyberpunk ways of seeing with cyberpunk ways of being, the author shows how a visual style is crucial to cyberpunk on a philosophical level, as well as on an aesthetic level. Tracing a trajectory over Gibson’s work that brings him from an emphasis on the visual that elevates the human over posthuman entities to a perspective based on touch, a truly posthuman understanding of humans as networked with their environments, she argues for connections between the visual and the posthuman that have not been explored elsewhere, and that have implications for future work in posthumanism and the arts.

Proposing an innovative model of reading through gestalt psychology, this book will be of key importance to scholars and students in the medical humanities, posthumanism, literary and cultural studies, dystopian and utopian studies, and psychology.

Anna McFarlane is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow with a project investigating images of traumatic pregnancy in fantastic literature. She is the co-editor of Adam Roberts: Critical Essays (2016), The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (with Graham J. Murphy and Lars Schmeink, 2020), Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture (with Graham J. Murphy and Lars Schmeink), and The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities.

Introduction: gestalt psychology and cyberpunk; 1. Autopoiesis in the Sprawl trilogy; 2. Chaos in the Bridge trilogy; 3. Perception in Pattern Recognition; 4. Psychoanalysis in Spook Country; 5. The parallax view in Zero History; 6. The haptic interface in The Peripheral; 7. Agency, and Gibson in the twenty-first century

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Zusatzinfo 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-367-53568-8 / 0367535688
ISBN-13 978-0-367-53568-1 / 9780367535681
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