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Cyborg as a Representation of the Relationship Between Man and Technology in Visual Culture
Petričák, Filip ; Charvát, Martin (advisor) ; Řehořová, Irena (referee)
This master thesis deals with the topic of the relationship between man and technology, which is represented by cyborg characters in visual culture. The aim is to create a stereotype of individual cyborg characters from selected cyber-punk works, on the basis of which I can reflect the vision and ideas of the relationship between the organic and technical in the future world. This work is divided into four chapters - the first chapter focuses on cyber-punk as a sub-genre of sci-fi, in the second I define the cyborg character and the postmodern theoretical background, which are related to the cyborg, in the third chapter I present the theoretical basis for the analysis of characters and specify methodological procedures, in the final chapter I analyze the individual works.
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Media reception of cyberpunk literature (Egon Bondy, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson)
Rosůlková, Magdaléna ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Láb, Filip (referee)
The aim of this work is to map critical reviews on significant cyberpunk novels by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Egon Bondy, which are Neuromancer, Snowcrash, and Cybercomics. It also gives the cyberpunk genre in the historical and literary context. For this reason, we used quantitative comparative methods to analyze selected reviews from Czech and foreign periodicals. The international media coverage includes analysis from Anglo- Americanˈs mainstream newspapers (The New York Times, The Washington Post) and academical journals (Science Fiction Studies, etc.). From Czech reviews, we used newspapers MF Dnes, periodicals Respekt, Instinkt, Týden, Literární noviny and specialized magazines (anarchistic fanzine A-kontra, Ikarie). This work also contains the theoretical part, which focuses on the definition and history of this science fiction genre. Furthermore, we include the interpretation of novels. The result of bachelor thesis is different views from literary critics on this science fiction movement, in particular on the books Neuromancer, Snowcrash, and Cybercomics. It also shows the development of cyberpunk literature and different role of the genre in the Czech Republic. The contribution of the thesis is the extension of the knowledge in this area and can be used for other works in the...
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The Birth of Cyber as a National Security Agenda
Schmidt, Nikola ; Hynek, Nikola (advisor) ; Stevens, Timothy Charles (referee) ; Polčák, Radim (referee)
The following dissertation studies the question how cyber security has become a national security agenda and discusses implications of the observed processes to current international security status quo. I divided the research into three parts. The first part embodies theoretical and methodological approach. The second part studies three distinct discourses related to cyber security, the techno-geek discourse, the crime-espionage discourse and the nation-defense discourse using the method of Michel Foucault about archaeology of knowledge. The third part then draws on these three discourses and discusses implications through lens of several theoretical perspectives. Namely through concepts taken from science and technology studies, from actor network theory and network assemblages. The critical point of the research is a distinct reading of these discourses. While techno-geeks are understood as a source of semiosis, hackers' capability and crypto-anarchy ideology influenced by cyberpunk subculture, the cyber-crime and espionage discourse is read as a source of evidence of the hackers' capability. The inspiration in popular subculture is combined with current efforts in development of liberating technologies against oppression by authorities, oppression recognized by the eyes of the crypto-anarchist...
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Body Modification in Cyberpunk,
Dudziaková, Marie ; Rychlík, Martin (referee) ; Šisler, Vít (referee)
The rigorous thesis Body Modification in Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk in Body Modification examines the intersection of these two topics from their mutual perspectives and monitors the extent to which they influence and shape each other. In its first part, the author deals with the representation, form and role of body modification in selected works of cyberpunk literature. The issue analysis is carried out by means of combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The author quantitatively evaluates 503 mentions of body modifications on a given sample of 7 major cyberpunk literary works, using 25 variables. The qualitative analysis, structured in 7 thematic areas, amplifies the qualitative findings. From the analysis results, the author draws definition of typical cyberpunk body modification, which she describes as invasive functional modification of the body that was created with the help of modern technologies. Based on this definition, in the second part of this rigorous thesis, the author focuses on the existing body modifications that meet these aspects. She creates 7 categories of functional cyberpunk body modifications, which she illustrates by examples. From this point of view she closer monitors the situation in the Czech Republic and also mentions the associated QRbodies project that was...
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Body modification in cyberpunk literature
Dudziaková, Marie ; Šlerka, Josef (advisor) ; Malečková, Dita (referee)
The diploma thesis Body Modifications in Cyberpunk Literature deals with the representation and role of body modifications in selected works of cyberpunk literature. The issue analysis is carried out by means of combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The first part of the thesis covers both areas theoretically and provides essential insight into the issue. In addition, the author develops her own definition of body modification and provides its genesis. In the research part, the author first explores a body of selected literary cyberpunk works obtained through a pilot research, namely novels Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Schismatrix and Blade Runner and short stories collections Mirrorshades and Burning Chrome. Furthermore, the author quantitatively evaluates 503 mentions of body modifications in a given sample, using 25 variables. The qualitative analysis, structured in 7 thematic areas, amplifies the quantitative findings and among other things deals with the role of body modifications in the construction of cyberpunk literary texts and their overlapping with reality. Keywords Body modification, cyberpunk, literature
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Film Works by the Director Oshii Mamoru
Baďurová, Jana ; Tirala, Martin (advisor) ; Sýkora, Jan (referee)
The topic of this work is the film works by the director Oshii Mamoru. The aim of this work is evaluating his works and specifying characteristic features of his animated and live-action films. Two of his representative works are analyzed and these characteristic features are illustrated on them. The work contains 48 pages.
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