It started with reading Edgar Allen Poe’s The Man That Was Used Up, mentioned in last week’s lecture on cyborgs. The short story tells of a general...
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The junk heap is where heroes are created
With modern times come modern tropes in media. The explosion of development in the area of digital technology has spawned many new themes for artists to...
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The “low-life” in cyberpunk not merely means material hardship, but more of a spiritual bullying: contempt for human self-esteem. According to Wikipedia, low-life people are those...
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