March 29th Class - CYBERPUNK

I'm actually digging Cyberpunk, a lot more than I thought I would. I had recently seen the director's cut of Bladerunner and thought it was amazing. It dealt with ideas of... I suppose it's called singularity and what is it to be human. On the surface it seems like it could just be some kind of edgy story that happens to take place in the future, but it really deals with much deeper ideas like what it means to actually be living, to be human and not machine. I also read a bit of Monalisa Overdrive and was really enjoying it. For now it feels like a small collection of short stories and kinda mentions ghosts in machines. In class we talked about Neuromancer and the quote, "The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel." We talked about how cyberpunk dealt with worlds in the near future, desensitized society, saturated in technology and being ruled by companies. Scary stuff. The rest of class we had group projects where we reviewed what we had learned in the previous two sections of horror and fantasy literature. Also, the projector would stop working randomly due to "ghosts in the machine..."