Forsaking the False Gods: Philosopher’s Analytic Approach to Cyberpunk Literature

Cyberpunk, on par of philosophy, as both try to analyze real scientific discoveries and its possible outcomes, can be treated as a form of thought experiments, creating technologically-enhanced imagined worlds to question certain boundaries of traditional philosophical reflexion. On this ground, there is an important assignment for philosophy and literature to set up and enquire these possible worlds as a sort of mental laboratory for testing various notions, ideas and experiments - both technological and philosophical with their possible consequences. Philosophy and cyberpunk literature, while having radically different aims, tools and techniques, share this feature and can complement each other in the task of understanding modernity

Recommended citation: Mamak, W. (2014). Forsaking the False Gods: Philosopher’s analytic approach to cyberpunk literature. In P. Wojtas (Ed.), A roundtable on interdisciplinary literary studies (pp. 81-90). Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw.
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