Lecture - Week 9

Let me start of by saying the lecturer is quite intense and very passionate about what he is talking about, which is not a bad thing as I found him interesting and listened to what he had to say.

This weeks topic was about Cyberpunk, with the last lecture's focus on William Gibson and his works.

Cyberpunk;
Broke it down into how it is gritty, a bit dark, how one can hide in shadows and it is safe (not dangerous).

• Hard-boiled detective fiction 
• Film noir
• Science fiction/SF 
• Literary postmodernism

He from here went on talking specifically about each point, meaning:

Hard-boiled detective fiction: often uses this technique in Cyberpunk - crime that needs to be resolved

Film noir: atmosphere in Cyberpunk echoes stylish Hollywood crime dramas

Science fiction/SF: Fiction dealing principally with the impact of actual or imagined science on society or individuals

Literary postmodernism: Human experience as unstable

When he started talking about William Gibson, he gave the basic outline of his life and how it was important that when he got his degree, bachelor in English, everything changed as he had now acquired a new type of English (with that I mean, he now read different literature and gained a new way of writing - professional typing). Then he talked a bit about some of Gibson's work, such as Neuromancer (which he showed a video of Bono citing Gibson's work)Virtual Light and Pattern Recognition. 

Sources:

https://learning.secure.griffith.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_87375_1&frame=top

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk

http://www.answers.com/topic/science-fiction
http://vc.ws.edu/engl2265/unit4/Modernism/all.htm