![]() When a person pursues “the bodiless exultation of cyberspace,” who or what is left behind (Gibson 6)? How is their relationship with the empirical world changed? Today, as coronavirus sweeps the globe and citizens everywhere struggle in and out of pandemic-imposed lockdowns, such questions take on fresh urgency. The following paper largely leaves technology to the side to meditate on the cyberpunk body itself. ![]() With its early vision of the allure and danger of global, networked communication, the story is in direct conversation with classic cyberpunk literature.Ĭyberpunk culture and the critical discourse that surrounds it tends to be concerned with the interface between technologies and bodies. Forster’s masterful science fiction novella from 1909, has long been lauded for its prescient descriptions of electronic communications technology. The Horror of Direct Experience: Cyberpunk Bodies and “The Machine Stops” ![]()
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