This document provides an overview and critique of cyberpunk genre works, focusing on their portrayal of gender and resistance to corporate power. It discusses how early cyberpunk novels by William Gibson often presented a dualistic view of gender and did not fundamentally challenge corporate dominance. The document then analyzes Donna Haraway's 1985 essay "A Manifesto for Cyborgs," which envisioned cyborgs as a way to transcend modern dualisms and boundaries between human and machine. Haraway argued that science fiction was becoming reality through hybridized medical, work and war technologies, challenging ideas of progress and domination.

1. What's the Critique of Cyberpunk? American Studies 282 Rutgers University Prof. Cornelius Collins Spring 2011

4. "Embrace of technology" (Nixon)

5. Corporate power is not shaken

6. Heroes part of the system and profit by their mastery of it

7. Opposition as style: "borrowed authenticity from punk rock"

9. Nixon: "in a relentlessly capitalist future, American heroism can be rearticulated": entrepreneurial, ingenious, upwardly mobile

10. Outlaw ... cowboy ... maverick

16. Scholarly essay

19. Myths -- not pre-scientific, outdated explanations of the world, but descriptions of cultural values

21. nature culture

22. private public

23. emotion rationality

24. savage civilized

25. other self

26. dark light

29. "We cannot go back ideologically or materially" (204)

31. Work: our labor -- mobile, global (195)

35. No salvation, no apocalypse

36. Release from unity, teleology, escalation, domination, guilt, innocence (192, 199, 217)

38. When capitialism's traditional mode of accumulation reaches its limit and shifts to a "more flexible" mode (David Harvey)

40. High capitalism: industrial

41. Late capitalism: financial