CYBERPUNK
What is CyberPunk?
It is a science fiction genre based in the possibilities inherent in computers, genetics, body modifications and corporate developments in the near future.
The word comes from the words Cybernetics which is the study of communication, command and control in living organisms, machines and organisations and Punk, a style of fast, loud, short rock music with an anarchist political philosophy.
The movie MATRIX pushed the limits of cyberpunk so it became like the bloated soap operas that it had originally scorned. It deals with philosophical issues at some depth.
Some quotes from the movie:
- Morpheus: The desert of the real.
- Neo: Why do my eyes hurt? Morpheus: You've never used thembefore.
- Morpheus: What is real? How do you define real? If you'retalking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, thenall you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by yourbrain.
MATRIX pushes the boundaries of computer-generated effects as it explores apossible future world where machines dominate humans but keep them inignorant bliss of their real state. The machines in MATRIX create atotally illusory reality for people, constructing their identities to suit the purposes of the machine.
CYBERPUNK THEMES:
- Technology and Mythology
- Utopia and Dystopia
- Cities as Machines
- Technological change
- Modernism to Postmodernism
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