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Eyes in the "Black Mirror"

Eyes in the "Black Mirror"

And that is what the Black Mirror is all about. We do not see our face in that black screen. We see what is left of our consciousness.

Cyberpunk, a rebel no more?

Cyberpunk, a rebel no more?

Perhaps the new cyberpunk is losing the ability to create scenarios. Is it becoming just consumer fiction made to amaze the reader and that's all?

The Uncanny Valley in a cyberpunk vision

The Uncanny Valley in a cyberpunk vision

Robots like humans are more attractive, but only up to a certain point: the Uncanny valley.

Root Legacy: To the Edge of Consciousness

Root Legacy: Cyberpunk/SciFi novel - English Edition

FATAL ERROR. NO WAY OUT. RUN. Net -a brilliant, unruly hacker- must make a choice: trust the Swarm of voices activates in his head or not.

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Hacker phenomenon: Against or within the System?

With the system or against the system? Fighting against big corporations or working for them?

Cyberpunk-warrior-looking_city By freepik

The 'real' space of the Cyberpunk: A reflection

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.― William Gibson

Blade Runner's Replicants: AIs, Identity, Memory and Neurorights

Blade Runner's Replicants: AIs, Identity, Memory and Neurorights

There are risks connected to the use of robotics and AI technologies. Can an artificial intelligence create a Memory of itself? Remembrances? Lives?

Cyberpunk: The importance of being Transhuman?

Cyberpunk: The importance of being Transhuman?

Transhumanism in the cyberpunk genre is a fundamental concept that significantly impacts the narrative and themes present in films, video games, and books belonging to this dystopian and futuristic genre.

The Philosophy of Transhumanism: From Literature to Scientific Practice

The Philosophy of Transhumanism: From Literature to Scientific Practice

Anyone interested in technological progress and cybernetic transplants knows that transhumanism is no longer a "fringe science", but research that is surprisingly concrete.

Gibsonian Cyberpunk and the Equitable Future

Gibsonian Cyberpunk and the Equitable Future

"The future is already here. It's just not quite evenly distributed yet" is a famous phrase by the American writer William Gibson that has been taken up by doctors, scientists and communicators. A simple, immediate, visionary and in some ways disturbing sentence.

Lost in the Shell: SciFi e dintorni - racconti brevi

Lost in the Shell: SciFi e Dintorni - Italian Edition

17 racconti raccolti in quest’antologia. Un percorso bizzarro e inquietante tra coscienza, fantascienza, cyberpunk e tecnologia.

Lost in the Shell: Flash and shorts around SciFi

Lost in the Shell: Flash and shorts around SciFi - English Edition

17 stories in this collection. A bizarre and disturbing journey through consciousness, science fiction, cyberpunk and technology.

Root Legacy: To the Edge of Consciousness

Root Legacy: To the Edge of Consciousness - Cyberpunk/SciFi novel

He has broken through their defenses. They won't forgive him. But he is not alone.

The Outers: What if even they couldn't stop it?

The Outers: What if even they couldn't stop it? - SciFi novel

In a neurotic world of Cybermen and Snervants Arthur Donovan finds himself embroiled with the charming profiler Himna in a financial-political AI intrigue.

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Miasma Chronicles: The Fate of the World Is in Your Fingers

The Bearded Ladies are taking us into a new post-apocalyptic scenario filled with mutant creatures, and they are doing it with a newfound level of artistry. There is the cyberpunk beat in this videogame, within lots of strategy and exploration.

Silkpunk: Mix science fiction and fantasy, drawing inspiration from classical East Asian history

Like steampunk, silkpunk is a mixture of science fiction and fantasy, with the dosage of each not always fixed. Steampunk is inspired by the technological aesthetic of brass and chrome of the Victorian era, while silkpunk is inspired by classical antiquity in East Asia.

Ballard: four novels Under the sign of the Apocalypse

Ballard: four novels Under the sign of the Apocalypse

The apocalyptic scenario is one that many of James G. Ballard's characters have to face. Ballard is a science fiction writer and noble father of speculative cyberpunk. His stories unfold under the sign of the Apocalypse, the Revelation of a new dystopic world.

Cyberpunk: On social and cultural meaning of a literary movement

Cyberpunk: On social and cultural meaning of a literary movement

The fictional genre known as cyberpunk has deep political and cultural roots, with great authors such as William Gibson and Neal Stephenson shaping its development and success. 'Cyberpunk is a comet that has passed through the skies of speculative fiction and exploded in its heyday. We will long sail

Are Cyberpunk and Science Fiction dead?

Are Cyberpunk and Science Fiction dead?

In Science Fiction the plot is fairly linear, with characters defined and more or less recognizable in patterns. In Cyberpunk, linearity is broken, protagonist-situation relationships are complex and ambiguous.

Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic

Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic: On human empowerment and control

Johnny Mnemonic is a hymn and a warning to human empowerment and control through dermal chips and the control of biological neural networks.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The imminent biological disintegration as a result of the radioactive catastrophe, the need for a 'belief', even if it is illusory (TV cult), the dumbing down of consciousness and ability to choose caused by the mass media.

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Building soldiers or re-creating the human being

Building soldiers or re-creating the human being?

The term robot was coined by the Czech writer Karel Capek. It first appeared in a novel called 'RUR' (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920). In Czech, 'robota' means 'work,' with emphasis on the fact that it is involuntary, i.e., forced, dependent work. In Polish, worker is translated as 'robotnik'.

Ghost in the Shell and the Root of Memory

Ghost in the Shell and the Root of Memory

when the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a compromise between the sedentary and the nomadic ethic, then we may find ourselves, among other things, in the ostentatious reworking of Japanese director Mamoru Oshii’s famous (but virtually misunderstood) anime: Ghost in the Shell.