Robin Gibson
Bio
Robin Gibson is a writer in the Puget Sound area. She's currently at college pursuing experimental writing, journalism, the ethics of copyright law, and UFOs.
You should contact her about writing things at [email protected].
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Orientalism in Cyberpunk
Spend a minute in the Cyberpunk subgenre and you're likely to find some aspect of the work that is nominally East Asian. Neuromancer by William Gibson opens on the imagination of a futuristic Chiba, Japan; Blade Runner (1982) works with the inspiration of "Hong Kong on a really bad day" [x]; the 2017 movie adaptation of Ghost in the Shell works with everything from Japanese sensibilities to a story from a manga written by a Japanese man, Masamune Shirow. Cyberpunk as a genre seems to take its visual cues from a perception of the Chinatowns that exist in major U.S. cities, places of en-masse freeform convergences covered in neon signs, cuneiform and kana, and in the case of Seattle's International District, a historic archway that sits grandly over King Street.
By Robin Gibson6 years ago in Geeks
