Фикцијата на киберпанкот како автентично искуство на стварноста

Abstract

The text offers a particular contextualisation of the theoretical research of Marxist hermeneutics. Therefore, the science-fiction subgenre of cyberpunk is taken as a narrative paradigm. In its topics of interest, set design and iconography we recognize an “acceleration” of the main concerns of neomarxism: hyperconsummerism, subordination caused by the metastasis of global capitalism, sophisticated construction of reality in cyberspace, simulated desires and needs in the agenda of reproduction of capital, etc. Three modes of the concept of cyberspace in the narrative of cyberpunk are examined: cyberspace as virtual reality, cyberspace as our reality and cyberspace as a medium for interpenetration of those realities. The problems of reality, desire and freedom are extracted as key in a Marxist reading of cyberpunk.