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NeoCYBERliberalPUNKizm – polityka i ideologia cyberpunka
NeoCYBERliberalPUNKism: Cyberpunk’s Politics and Ideologies

Author(s): Paweł Frelik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: cyberpunk; science fiction; politics; economics; neoliberalism

Summary/Abstract: The article illuminates cyberpunk’s invisible conservative ideologies, including ethnicprejudice, sexism and misogyny, and deep anti-ecologism, but, above all, the acceptanceof neoliberal capitalism hiding behind the façade of anti-corporate rhetoric. Cyberpunkis thus not only conciliatory in relation to the current socio-economic system. Itcommunicates its quintessential values and serves as an effective rhetorical tool whoseperversity relies on the virality of its visual signature and empty gestures of rebellion.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 32-51
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish