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Science Fiction VR: Technological Imagination of Cyberpunk Film Fiction
Purkrábková, Noemi ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Malečková, Dita (referee)
This bachelor's thesis draws primarily on two impulses, which both already enjoyed increased attention during the 1990s when they were significantly mutually interwined in the new field of cyberculture. The first one is a general interest in fiction, and especially science fiction (SF), noticeable mainly within the framework of contemporary thinking tendencies of speculative realism and accelerationism. The second is expressed by the recent "comeback" of the technology of virtual reality (VR) into the public consciousness. The text links thinking about the importance of fiction together with the discourse of early VR technology, which is presented as in many ways strongly projective, and at the same time it underlines the constitutive role of cyberpunk film fiction in the creation of some of the ideas about its technological potential. The thesis contextualizes thinking about the relation of SF and theory, it shows that fiction makes a significant part of our cognitive processes and that SF also does not need to be reduced to a genre category but can be perceived as a specific kind of speculative fiction about the future, which shares a number of points of contact with theoretical reflection and can therefore function as a valuable tool for philosophy, especially if it seeks to theorize something...
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