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Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the Graduate program of Art History and Communication Studies [Communications Graduate Program]. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/02/12). Includes bibliographical references.

O presente trabalho pretende realizar o estudo sobre o modelo de corporalidade que foi difundido pela cinematografia recente inspirada pelo movimento cyberpunk. Marcados pela expressão de uma nova forma de dualismo que se funde com os pressupostos antes associados à chamada estética grotesca de um corpo pouco individualizado e aberto ao intercâmbio com o mundo externo e ao mesmo tempo bastante marcado por um novo tipo de conflito agora entre memória e organicidade. O texto discutirá também a contextualização social do movimento cyberpunk que pretendeu unificar a contracultura dos anos 60 com as discussões derivadas das novas tecnologias contemporâneas e seus efeitos nas novas concepções sobre corporeidade e conflito mente/corpo. / This thesis aims to analyze corporeality in cyberpunk cinema. This cinema is defined by a new form of dualism associated to the presuppositions of the grotesque aesthetics. It is a little individualized body and open to the interchange with the external world and defined by a new form of conflict between memory and organicity. The thesis shall also discuss the social context of cyberpunk, which aimed to combine countercultural discussions of the 1960s with discussions coming from the contemporary technologies and their effects on the new conceptions of corporeality and the body/mind dualism.

O presente trabalho pretende realizar o estudo sobre o modelo de corporalidade que foi difundido pela cinematografia recente inspirada pelo movimento cyberpunk. Marcados pela expressão de uma nova forma de dualismo que se funde com os pressupostos antes associados à chamada estética grotesca de um corpo pouco individualizado e aberto ao intercâmbio com o mundo externo e ao mesmo tempo bastante marcado por um novo tipo de conflito agora entre memória e organicidade. O texto discutirá também a contextualização social do movimento cyberpunk que pretendeu unificar a contracultura dos anos 60 com as discussões derivadas das novas tecnologias contemporâneas e seus efeitos nas novas concepções sobre corporeidade e conflito mente/corpo. / This thesis aims to analyze corporeality in cyberpunk cinema. This cinema is defined by a new form of dualism associated to the presuppositions of the grotesque aesthetics. It is a little individualized body and open to the interchange with the external world and defined by a new form of conflict between memory and organicity. The thesis shall also discuss the social context of cyberpunk, which aimed to combine countercultural discussions of the 1960s with discussions coming from the contemporary technologies and their effects on the new conceptions of corporeality and the body/mind dualism.

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Esta dissertação analisa a presença do Humanismo enquanto corrente filosófica, e de que forma esta voz se coaduna com as perspectivas pós e transhumanistas presentes na literatura cyberpunk, especificamente, na obra Neuromancer da autoria de William Gibson. Partindo de um fundo metafórico, a dissertação congrega diversos instrumentos metodológicos do campo da sociologia, filosofia e estudos culturais, encontrando-se dividida em três partes, sendo que as duas primeiras destinam-se a fundamentar teoricamente o estudo das posições narrativa acima descritas na terceira e última parte.

The meaning of this essay is to look at how the narrative strategies, description of character and society differ between the two novels "This Perfect Day" and "Neuromancer". By looking at the different narrative techniques used by the authors and the results we can see why some of these strategies work very well in one novel but would not suit the other because of the contrasts in style it would produce.

Cyberpunk's attempt to imagine the futures that the expanding communications networks will shape, as explored in Sterling's Islands in the Net and Stephenson's The Diamond Age, discovers that the boundaries between the machine and human, the natural and artificial, and the past and present have never been as clear as the modern realist schematic has drawn them. Gothic literature represents transgressions of these boundaries as threatening to the self, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the node where the gothic is dismembered and sutured into science fiction, and the modern self faces its monstrous double. Yet if boundaries are represented as sites of interface, gothic threats become opportunities for growth and generation. Individual texts, even realist ones, have always sutured together intertextual ingredients. Jane Eyre offers an alternative model for constructing the subject through sorting texts, a technique which emerges through cyberpunk as the essential survival skill of the future self.

Zugl.: Giessen, Univ., Diss., 2004

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