Cyberpunk Politics & Philosophy

Written by Isaac L. Wheeler (Veritas)

May 20, 2017

Last Week in Cyberpunk 5/20/17

Chelsea Manning is free, Julian Assange has had the charges against him dropped, and the war against transparency has never been stronger. No wonder there is a resurgence in popular culture of the cyberpunk ethos. Cyberpunk Reality Chelsea Manning Free Chelsea Manning took her first steps as a free woman on Wednesday, May 17th. This […]

Written by Daniel Rodriguez

May 13, 2017

Last Week in Cyberpunk 5/12/2017

Cyberpunk news for the week includes a visit from a spy, a nosy pizza shop, and a retired killer (Hail Hydra). Let’s get to the news. Cyberpunk Reality Nixon’s Shadow: Stupidity, Lies, and Audio Tape In a move that’s drawing comparisons to the “Saturday Night Massacre”, President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. A […]

Books & Fiction

Written by Rogelio Garcia

May 9, 2017

Evolving into Sentience: Frankenstein, Ghost in the Shell, and The Man of the Crowd

“Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.” -Jean La Bruyere, quoted by Edgar Allen Poe in “The Man of the Crowd.” “Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side.” -Will Smith song “Potnas” The plot of the 2004 film I, Robot, revolves around two robots that have […]

Books & Fiction

Written by Isaac L. Wheeler (Veritas)

May 6, 2017

Last Week in Cyberpunk 5/6/2017

There is a whole host of news relating to cyberpunk movies this week, some have officially died and some have moved forward, some have been resurrected. Reality, as always it seems, has ignored the warnings of cyberpunk and stepped gingerly into our cyberpunk future. Cyberpunk Reality NYPD Raises Privacy Concerns Over Use of Facial Recognition […]

Written by Rogelio Garcia

May 4, 2017

Neuromancer: Counterpoint to 1980’s Popular Culture

Neuromancer – Deliberately Counter to American Expectations In the forward to the 2004 reprinting of Neuromancer, William Gibson says that he felt his book would never find an audience in the United States because he was writing deliberately counter to what he felt American audiences wanted, unlike something like the Rocky franchise. I always found […]

Written by Daniel Rodriguez

May 2, 2017

Simulated Living: The Matrix, Existential Nihilism, and the Shortcomings of Technology

The Matrix. While it works as an allegory for nonconformity, and an army of G-Men that assimilate random civilians into their network, it’s best known for making people question the realness of their surroundings. Are we real? Living in a simulation? Researchers like Nick Bostrom have explored this possibility in academia, and it seems every […]

Written by Daniel Rodriguez

April 29, 2017

Last Week in Cyberpunk 4/28/2017

News this week brings us a dissection of a classic from the creator himself, internet prices may go up while coverage drops, Fancy Bear gets interested in European elections, but we can watch a baby xenomorph and a lamb put the beauty of nature on full display. Let’s see what happened this Last Week in […]

Written by Lacie Carmody

April 27, 2017

Automation and the Prospects of Anti-tech Politics

Unless you lived under a rock for the duration of 2016, you’re probably aware of the fact that the United States elected a new president. Promises of good paying jobs, which had vanished nearly ten years before, returning, likely played a role in the election of Donald Trump, but the ability for him to fulfill […]