Literatura szoku przyszłości, futuryzm i prześniony cyberpunk
Future Shock Literature, Futurism and Transposed Cyberpunk

Summary/Abstract: Gorliński-Kucik explores cyberpunk in Polish literature in the context of the genre’skey features, namely a language that is critical of technological modernity and‘technorebellious,’ utopian laboratories of the social imagination. These had alreadyappeared in the manifestos and poems of Polish futurists and the avant-garde. The genreof sociological fantasy, meanwhile, which developed at the same time as cyberpunk,focuses on the problem of power as such (or the subjectivised technology of governance)rather than with the relationship between humans and technology. Given modernPoland’s specific history and its current functioning in a globalised postmodernity,‘cyberpunk in Poland’ is a more fitting concept than ‘Polish cyberpunk’. Consequently,Polish society lacks a language that is critical of technological modernity.

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