The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture

In this companion an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements providing readers with snapshots of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk as culture.With technology seamlessly integrated into our lives and our selves and social systems veering towards globalization and corporatization cyberpunk has become a ubiquitous cultural formation that dominates our twenty-first century techno-digital landscapes. The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture traces cyberpunk through its historical developments as a literary science fiction form to its spread into other media such as comics film television and video games. Moreover seeing cyberpunk as a general cultural practice the Companion provides insights into photography music fashion and activism. Cyberpunk as the chapters presented here argue is integrated with other critical theoretical tenets of our times such as posthumanism the Anthropocene animality and empire. And lastly cyberpunk is a vehicle that lends itself to the rise of new futurisms occupying a variety of positions in our regionally diverse reality and thus linking as much as differentiating our perspectives on a globalized technoscientific world. With original entries that engage cyberpunk’s diverse ‘angles’ and its proliferation in our life worlds this critical reference will be of significant interest to humanities students and scholars of media cultural studies literature and beyond.