C.h.a.p.t.e.r 6: ReSearch


What follows are suggestions for How to research the various themes--Cyberpunks and Cyborgs--discussed and exemplified on the Net and the WWW.

(If you should need additional help with using the search engines referred to below, then turn to Appendix A in CR2 and to the Appendices on line. And if you should have any questions or suggestions, simply drop me a note at VVitanza@aol.com and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible.)



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Let's get into the thick of things and search for the keyterms and concepts that are dealt with in this chapter:


A WebCrawler search for "Cyberpunk":

Notice: When you click on the WebCrawler link it will open a new browser window. You should be able to work with both windows open, reducing the size of one or both.

Top 25 of 471 for cyberpunk
Show summaries for these results
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70% Cyberpunk
69% Cyberpunk, Cyberdungeon on-line Gaming Store, RPG,...
67% Settore CyberPunk
66% Cult of the Dead Cow
62% CyberPunk REsearch Labs
61% Balp's CyberPunk 2020 Archive
61% Bruce Sterling and Cyberpunk
60% the Official Glenn Branca Web Site
60% CybeRpunk Homepage
60% This is the BGC Page that Tasha built
59% Blade Runner
59% http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/lal/cyberspace/cyberpunk/docs/Bo...
59% aud's cyberpunk pinups
59% Postmodern Science Fiction and Cyberpunk
58% CTHEORY: Johnny Mnemonic: The Day Cyberpunk Died
58% Morninman's Cyberpunk: 2020 Archive
58% What is Cybergen?
57% Cyberpoet's Guide to Virtual Culture
57% GURPS Cyberpunk
57% Machine Dreams--Foundation Seminar Planning Page
56% William Gibson Information
56% Cyberpunk 2020!
56% Peter Vorobieff's Fiction
56% Mark/Space: Anachron City: Library: CyberCulture


The English Server (CMU) In the topical list, you will find

Sterling,
Cybrpunk From...,
Cyberpunk Archives,
Maddox essay (Tom Maddox, "After the Deluge: Cyberpunk in the '80s and '90s").

Electronic Frontier Foundation. Search under "Archives" then under either "Topical Index" or "FTP Archive Top Level" and then the directory "Netculture," where you will find "Cyberpunk" (a caveat: things get moved around, so if you do not find these specific instructions still work, it will be necessary to search through both the archives and ftp site and by way of a variety of categories; originally cypberpunk had its own category in the archives and then was moved to "Netculture"):

Files in this Archive

      baudy_world_of_byte_ban.article
"A Postmodernist Interpretation of the Computer Underground," by Gordon Meyer and Jim Thomas, is a sociological analysis of the computer underground which takes a more sympathetic than usual look at the members and actions of the computer underground.

cpunk_as_counterculture.article
Fascinating article by Seeker1 examining the cyberpunk phenomenon and analyzing the appropriateness of assigning the "counterculture" label to cyberpunks.

culture_jamming.article
      Article by Seeker1 about culture jamming, sabotaging advertising campaigns to point out the flawed reasoning encouraged by advertisers.

cyber_net.biblio
      List of books and articles about cyberspace, cyberpunk, electronic communications and other related ideas.

cyberpunk_terminal_chic.article
      Article by Nathan Cobb, from the Boston Globe, abou cyberpunk culture, specifically the differences between hackers and punks, how the two cultures merged, and the resulting cyberculture.

feminism_and_cyberpunk.article
      Brief article about feminism in cyberspace and how it differs from "mainstream" feminism.

philip_dick.article
      Article by Seeker1 about author Philip K. Dick and his role in shaping hte cyberpunk genre. Pretty wierd.

slacker_manifesto.article
      To describe this article by Seeker1 (using his real name) would be to violate the principles espoused therein. Read it.

subculture_and_cpunk.article
      An examination of post WWII subcultures that places the cyberpunk culture in an historical context. Subdirectory

Neal_Stephenson/
      Directory of things written by or about Neal Stephenson.

Bruce Sterling
      Directory of things written by or about Bruce Sterling.

William Gibson
      Directory of things written by or about William Gibson.


Search more specifically now forsuch combinations as

Gibson + Reader's Guide
Sterling + Gibson
Gibson + Maddox + X-files
Sterling + canon
Cyborgs + surgery
Cyborgs + games
Cyborg + anthropology


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