Cyber Nomads in a Trash-human Dystopia: A Posthumanist Analysis of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Cyber Nomads in a Trash-human Dystopia: A Posthumanist Analysis of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses how the miniseries Cyberpunk: Edgerunners critiques a world driven by unregulated technological progress and market dominated transhumanist ideals. While a dystopian vision of the future has been a well-established part of cyberpunk universes since the release of Neuromancer by William Gibson in 1986, this anime series introduces a fresh and noteworthy dimension to the cyberpunk’s assessment of the future. It achieves that by depicting the tragic fall of its protagonist, David, whose life stands as an illustrative symbol of the human cost in a world where progress takes priority over people. The article sets to interpret this bleak scenario of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners by placing it in the context of Jaime del Val’s vocal criticism of hyperconsumerism and hyperhumanism, which leads to replacing an unsustainable union between humans and technology with a new figure of the metahuman.

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