Of Cats and Backpack: Utopian Possibilities in Cyberpunk Worlds
Résumé
As a subgenre of science fiction, cyberpunk draws on the possibilities offered by digital technologies, most notably Internet networks, to describe dystopian universes (Rumpala 2021). But these fictions also depict diverse inclusive worlds: their universe dematerializes societies, thus bypassing communication and mobility issues. These realities developped around advances in technology explore the ethical ambiguity of technology, between human advancement and resource exploitation. They confront the potential inequalities and precarizations with EDIA issues and universal accessibility (echoing the founding utopia of Internet [Cardon 2019]) in a social perspective which reminds of the hopepunk subgenre (Burk 2019). Going beyond the dystopian framework of cyberpunk gives insights on its structure, testifying to the possibilities offered by the analog-digital interlocking.