Cyberpunk Culture

Announcing the inauguration of #CyRN - the Cyberpunk Culture Research Network ... in the wake of #cpcc20 and its success, the community of scholars will keep the conversation of #cyberpunk as cultural formation going. More to come in the future and on cyberpunkculture.com

ICYMI, legendary cyberpunk Bruce Sterling had some kind words for the Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture that I edited with @GrahamJMurphy1 and @larsxl_hh. Cheers, @bruces! #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #sf @routledgebooks @Routledge_MandC

Neu in der »Zeitschrift für @Fantastikforsch«: Die Rezenson @larsxl_hh rezensiert »#Neoliberalism and #Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Living on the Edge of Burnout« von Caroline Alphin. zff.openlibhums.org/article/id/842…

Reminder: next CyRN Book Club is on Misha's Red Spider White Web and will take place on FRI Apr 09 ... If you are having trouble getting the book (out-of-print), please check the Discord server. See you all on the 9th...

Problems with our #CyRN #BookClub. No one seems able to get copies of Misha‘s novel. So sorry for the trouble. We are working on it. Request to publisher is sent ... stay tuned.

Reminder: next #CyRN #BookClub is on Misha's Red Spider White Web and will take place on FRI Apr 09 ... it will take place. If you are having trouble getting the book (out-of-print), please check the Discord server. See you all on the 9th...

The technology and some of the ideas in Tron may feel outdated, but the film turned out to be quite influential -- even prophetic. I talk with Tron’s director Steven Lisberger about making a movie about computers without the help of computers. imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/tron-…

Issue 2/2020 includes two conference reports! Filip Boratyn recaps the @LSFRC_ conference Beyond Borders: Empires, Bodies, Science Fictions while Adam Edwards reports from @CyberpunkCult 2020. journal.finfar.org/articles/beyon… journal.finfar.org/articles/confe…

And because we had a tie in the votes, we are also announcing the #CyRN #BookClub after, which will take place on JUN 25 and be discussing Larissa Lai (@haamyue)'s The Tiger Flu ... a great new take on some #cyberpunk themes ... hope you can all join us.

The votes are in. Our next #CyRN #BookClub is going to take place on APR 09 and we will be reading Misha's Red Spider White Web. A classic #cyberpunk that is rarely discussed and should be much more front and center. Let's talk about it.

New stuff on our homepage - a write-up of our book club on @Ada_Palmer 's Terra Ignota. If you missed it, check it out: cyberpunkculture.com/2020/11/cyrn-b…

Reminder that the 2nd #CyRN #Bookclub is happening this Friday and we are discussing @Ada_Palmer 's Too Like the Lightning and Seven Surrenders ... check it out here: cyberpunkculture.com/2020/11/cyrn-b…

"It could be a better version of cyberpunk, one that is timely for societies in which #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and Fridays for Future are the tip of the iceberg of social revolution." @larsxl_hh considers the long-awaited video game "Cyberpunk 2077." ow.ly/aXnA50CX9W2

@willianpbusch can you send me your details via email to companion@cyberpunkculture.com ... need to speak with the other editors and then get back to you.

Another review of #CPCC20 from our colleague @The_euphemism for @Fafnir_Journal, highlighting the work of @Escogar @JuliaGatermann @Nomad93 @StinaAttebery @AgaWaszkiewicz and others ... enjoy the read: journal.finfar.org/articles/confe…

The new SFRA Review issue is out and our #CPCC20 forum is featured in it. #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #articles ... check it out: sfrareview.org/50-4/

Shortly starting our #CyRN #Cyberpunk Music workshop, just under half an hour. Join us via cyberpunkculture.com, presentations remain up and membership is free. Discord is our platform for discussion of industrial, techno, neo-opera and cut-up music. Fun to be had! #cpcc20

Introducing #CyRN #Cyberpunk Music workshop presenter §4 - Andrew Wenaus "The Engineer and Architect of Cyberpunk Cut-up Music: Iannis Xenakis’ Granular Synthesis” ... music theory and synthesizers... FRI 7 pm UTC cyberpunkculture.com/1st-cyrn-works…§4-andrew-wenaus/

Introducing #CyRN #Cyberpunk Music workshop presenter §3 - Jim Osman "Neo-Opera, 21st Century Post-Veristic Opera as Cyberpunk Provocation” talking about the potential of cyberpunk to revolutionize opera. FRI 6.30 pm UTC cyberpunkculture.com/1st-cyrn-works…§3-jim-osman/

Introducing #CyRN #Cyberpunk Music workshop presenter §2 - @josephhurtgen on "Records that Warp" talking about cp's influence on techno, electro, and synth ... Discussion FRI 6pm UTC cyberpunkculture.com/1st-cyrn-works…§2-joseph-hurtgen/

Introducing our #CyRN #Cyberpunk Music workshop presenters: §1 is Nicholas Laudadio, whose paper broadly introduces cyberpunk music in industrial, EDM, metal, hiphop and synth soundtracks. cyberpunkculture.com/1st-cyrn-works…§1-nicholas-laudadio/