THE LITERARY MOVEMENT CYBERPUNK: THE AESTHETICS OF A DECLINING SOCIETY

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  • Glaucio Aranha Organização Ciências e Cognição (OCC)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i36.155102

Keywords:

fantastic literature, science fiction, cyberpunk

Abstract

This essay focuses the cyberpunk literary movement. It proposes a reflection on how the authors of this subgenre of science fiction treated aesthetically the expectations of social transformations in the face of the emergence of new communication technologies in the 1980s. It seeks to identify how the movement felt and represented social issues and tensions in relation to a future increasingly marked by a technological imperative and by contemporary capitalism. This approach starts contextualizing the object, to analyze the transformations of paradigms that occurred throughout the existence of the literary movement until its saturation and its unfolding in the so-called post-cyberpunk literature.

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  • Glaucio Aranha, Organização Ciências e Cognição (OCC)

    Pesquisador associado da Organização Ciências e Cognição (OCC). Pesquisador associado do Núcleo de Divulgação Científica e Ensino de Neurociências (NuDCEN/UFRJ), desenvolvendo a linha de pesquisa "Novas Mídias, Narratividade e Ensino". É Editor-Chefe da publicação científica Ciências & Cognição (www.cienciasecognicao.org/revista) e parecerista dos periódicos acadêmicos Ciberlegenda (UFF), Contracampo, INTERFACE - Comunicação, Saúde, Educação (UNESP) e outros. Atua, ainda, na Assessoria de Comunicação e Projetos, da Ouvidoria-Geral do Tribunal de Justiça do Rio de Janeiro (TJRJ). Tem experiência em: estudos de mídia, estudos da narrativa, literatura comparada, novas tecnologias e cultura pop japonesa (anime, mangá, games).

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Published

2019-11-21

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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2019): Conflitos e convergências - vida literária e intelectual em Goa

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ARANHA, Glaucio. THE LITERARY MOVEMENT CYBERPUNK: THE AESTHETICS OF A DECLINING SOCIETY. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 20, n. 2, p. 251–271, 2019. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i36.155102. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/155102.. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.