"Gibson said it in a short story somewhere. Cyberpunk is the result that has EDGE written all over it. You know, not edge, it's written EDGE. All capital letters. Now ask how I'd define EDGE. Well, EDGE is not about definitions. To the contrary, things so well known that they provide an exact definition can't be EDGE. They probably once were but now they ain't. SO DON'T TRY TO DEFINE IT!!!" (By William Gibson)(www.project.cyberpunk.ru/idb).
What is Cyberpunk?Actually, Cyberpunk has no exact meaning,we could give it a definition, or in fact, many different definitions but nevertheless Cyberpunk is still considered as "The Undefinable"..
What is it? what should it be?What's its function?
Well, Cyberpunk has two meanings or lets just say two ways to see it:
1-A literary/science fiction genre: created in the 1980's, its goal is to combine the fields of high tech and of pop culture thereby separating the organic and the artificial.
2-A living subculture and a social movement originally based on the cyberpunk science fiction: known as "Hard Science Fiction" because of its heavy reliance on technology or biology to tell a story.
The term "Cyberpunk" was originally a marketing term applied to Science Fiction writings of William Gibson and Douglas Rushkoff, but was soon "stolen" by many Internet users as a description of a lifestyle, culture or community to which they imagine they belong. So "Cyberpunk" became the way of thinking and attitude for many people in the Net and in so called Real Life. (www.cyberpunk.ru/idb).
Monday, March 31, 2008
What is "Cyberpunk" ?
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nice work and i realy liked the changes u made...
but no creation i mean u only defined cyberpunk but no actual examples, no you etc...
Try to b part of the post not just list info n thats it...
like the one about adding our blogs add. try to b like that with all the posts...
Jana:)
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