Category Archives: Cyberpunk @ P2PU

These essays were assignments for the P2PU course ‘Introduction to Cyberpunk Literature’. The course was never graded, but in response to ‘Atemporaneous Continuality’ Bruce Sterling tweeted: “Sjef here is so keenly knowledgeable that he oughta be Chancellor of P2PU.org”, which is the greatest endorsement I’ve ever had and I’m pretty sure means I passed that shit. This was of course before I posted the final assignment story which features the Veridian movement as a death cult and is accompanied by the pretty grim review my proof reader wrote me. Sorry about that Bruce!

Introduction to Cyberpunk Literature

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I’m currently enrolled in this course at P2PU.org, an Open Education Resource exploring the future of higher education in a peer to peer world where technology is constantly accelerating the changing ways in which we use knowledge and are forced to learn.

The stated aims of the course are to illustrate the contrast between Space Opera and cyberpunk, and to discuss the consequences of the relations between humans and androids. Personally I’m more interested in the cultural influences of the genre, but a lot of interesting material I wasn’t familiar with and viewpoints I hadn’t earlier been exposed to have already cropped up, so as far as learning experiences go I think the course is going to be a success.

There will regularly be written assignments that need to be done as part of the course, I’ll be posting those here as they come over the next few weeks. Any interesting and relevant links I come across will be tagged up and bookmarked on this Diigo group.