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Neon Under Shadows: Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema’s Politics of Technological Alienation

August 21, 2026

Japanese cyberpunk’s distinctiveness becomes clear when compared to Western cyberpunk. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) asks: What is human? It’s a philosophical question rooted in Cartesian dualism and humanist tradition.[…]

Animation · Counterculture · Cyberpunk · Digital · Essays · New Genres

A Brief History of Slip and Failure: Cyberpunk and the Headroom for Nostalgia in Back to the Future

January 18, 2021

In refusing to be neither something different nor more of the same, Back to the Future II’s re-filming technique within the original via new VistaGlide technology offered – rather –[…]

Category: Cyberpunk

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