Thursday, October 7, 2010

Week 9 Lecture


This week's lecture talks about Cyberpunk and William Gibson.

Cyberpunk















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Cyberpunk, the word, is the mix of the word "cybernetics" and the word "punk". This is a sub genre of sci-fi, mainly focus on hackers, artificial intelligence and future world. Can be seen as a "literature post modernism".

William Gibson
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Born in 17th Mar 1948, the most influential writer in cyberpunk genre.

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