Cyberpunkowe utopie miejskie w powieści "Neuromancer" Williama Gibsona

• Authors: Grażyna Gajewska

Title variants

EN

Cyberpunk city utopias in William Gibson’s "Neuromancer"

Abstracts

EN

This article presents an analysis of the space, or rather non-space of a virtual city described by William Gibson in his cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. It is proposed that the concept of the city in the book was based on the figure of a mirror and mirror image, a play of ‘the same’ with ‘the other one’: the physically, materially and thus spatially existing city is reflected in cyberspace (non-space), with the cybercity copying but at the same time distorting the image of the material city. These distortions are further discussed in the text. The mirror model of the cybercity and its urban planning is juxtaposed with other variants based on the figures of the jungle, underground and depth.

Keywords

PL

utopie technologiczne; transhumanizm; cyberpunk; cyborg

EN

technological utopias; transhumanism; cyberpunk; cyborg

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 106
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 93-105

Contributors

author

Grażyna Gajewska

Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2019.106.08

Biblioteka Nauki

1856791