Essays about: "Cyberpunk"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word Cyberpunk.
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1. The Relation Between High-Technology, Human Identity, the Body, and the Dystopian Future Society of Neuromancer
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : We live in a world where not only humans but also any object around us is believed to have agency. A shifting relationship exists between everything, specifically between humans and technology. However, the relationship between humans and technology has become much more complicated in the world of Neuromancer. READ MORE
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2. Can Video Game's Invincible Protagonist Beat Capitalism? : A political genealogy through Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, and Disco Elysium
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABMAbstract : The thesis is a meta-narrative discourse regarding the subversion in the representation of late capitalist realism. Through a post-humanist Marxist perspective, it connects three video game industry’s favorites with the ultimate question of capitalism: Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, and Disco Elysium. READ MORE
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3. Visions of the Future: An exploration of the visual and thematic worlds of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.
University essay from Lunds universitet/FilmvetenskapAbstract : This essay examines the relationship between the two feature-length Blade Runner films, placing a certain focus on areas of aesthetic, design, and thematic content with the aim of reaching new insights into the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which the films were made. Each subchapter explores the films from a different perspective leading up to chapter IV, in which I consider the films in relation to the cultural theory of capitalist realism. READ MORE
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4. Undoing Gender Interpellations in Role-Playing Videogame Spaces : The case of Cyberpunk 2077 as a case of resistance from a feminist post-constructionist perspective
University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)Abstract : This Thesis is pertinent to the negotiations of sex, gender, and sexuality in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 and the narratives the gamer traverses while on the game, and aimed to add to the literature regarding the entanglements of gender and technology within the virtual world of the video games.This Thesis focused on investigating the potential of technocultural assemblages to undo gender (and racial) interpellations, and more specifically in regard to the assemblages that are formed between (post)human and avatar in first-person video games that allow the user to create their character with a great deal of freedom. READ MORE
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5. Selling Stories and Consuming Culture : The Connection between Literature and Marketing in Max Barry's Syrup (1999) and Jennifer Government (2003)
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : Literature and marketing are closely connected. This statement might be considered surprising. This thesis, however, aims to explore this connection by applying an interdisciplinary approach anchored in both marketing and literary theory. The multifaceted nature of the relationship between the fields can be discussed from various angles. READ MORE
