The Phenomenon of Cyberpunk (Full Version)

Available Now! Cyberpunk Tee – “The Phenomenon of Cyberpunk” – separates fact from science-fiction, exploring the movement’s gritty technological setting, antiauthoritarian archetypes, corporate-urban fusion, counter-culture iconography, subverted neo-futurism, and the diminishing line between perception and reality. The episode unravels the inspirations behind cyberpunk, as well as its influence across art, literature, film, architecture, and gaming. The documentary features interviews and commentary from Sherryl Vint, John Semley, and David Roh. Sherryl Vint, editor of Science Fiction Studies and the Director of Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science at UC Riverside, where she studies popular culture and science, biopolitical theory, and technoculture. John Semley, a science-fiction writer and researcher from Toronto, Canada, whose writing explores institutional culture, the clash betw