Politics & Philosophy
The Cyber-Femme: Woman in the Machine
Cyberpunk exists as a kind of liminal space in the imagination, the hazy middle ground where dichotomies come to play. Cyberpunk settings often manage to be both dystopian-futurist and unnervingly clo...
Digital Health: COVID-19 and the Rise of Biosurveillance
Biosurveillance is the process of tracking medical and health data for clues about a possible health event like an outbreak. Historically, it’s a normal and necessary part of public health. But ...
Carbon & Silicon: a neuromantic tale by French author Mathieu Bablet
More than any others, one work deserves the qualifier of “post-cyberpunk”: Carbon & Silicon, from awarded French author Mathieu Bablet. However, the label itself has no importance, as this new ent...
Post-Human Capitalism and Revolution: Detroit and Blade Runner 2049
The cyberpunk of the late 20th century was not just fiction nor just a response to late capitalism, but hidden within cyberpunk lies dormant political theory for the present and the future — leading t...
Alternate realities in the every day: extremism, the internet, and the death of truth
There’s a dangerous contradiction inherent to the Information Age, and one that’s pushing extreme ideologies to the fore. Our access to information vastly outpaces our ability to interpret it, and tha...
Nowpunk, Mr Robot & The Importance of Representation in Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk has given creatives a medium to explore and discuss the possibilities of the future, the dangers and prospects of technological advancement, corporate corruption and much more. But like many...
The L0WL1F3 Podcast: a Neon Dystopia production
After long last, Neon Dystopia is proud to present our first ever podcast! The L0WL1F3 podcast! A podcast where Oldman Coinops, Shadowlink, and Scum talk news, movies, music, games, politics, chaos, a...
Soylent Green: Cyberpunk’s Horrifying Apotheosis
Soylent Green, believe it or not, is the pinnacle of the cyberpunk ethos, and not really about cannibalism (not entirely anyway). For those of you that have yet to watch the film, your cultural knowle...
Classics, Class, and Code: The unlikely presence of the ancient world in cyberpunk literature
Classical antiquity, or classics – the study of the ancient Mediterranean, its history, culture, art, literature – is just about the fanciest thing in the history of the western world. It was, and to ...