Corpses, Animals, Machines and Mannequins: The Body and Cyberpunk

'''McCarron, Kevin. "Corpses, Animals, Machines and Mannequins: The Body and Cyberpunk."' In Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Development''. Roger Burrows and Mike Featherstone, eds. London: SAGE, 1995. Online Publication Date: 31 May 31.

The essay opens with a quotation on the body by René Descartes, and then this (from opening paragraph): [...I]n his famous Meditations, Descartes presents an argument for a mind/body dichotomy which remains highly influential today. Cyberpunk, too, is heavily preoccupied with philosophical issues, although many critics prefer to stress the cultural deficiencies of the genre. [...] However, in my view, the 'body' of texts, literary and cinematic, which comprises the genre of cyberpunk constitutes a sustained meditation, unrivaled in contemporary culture, on the Cartesian mind/body dichotomy.

RDE, completing, 28May19