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サイバーパンク批評アンソロジーの古典。本書をジャンピング・ボードとして生まれた文学理論が、日本側特別編集のラリイ・マキャフリイ『アヴァン・ポップ』（筑摩書房、1995年；北星堂書店、2007年6月刊行予定）に結実した。（巽孝之）
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The term "cyberpunk" entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, multinational machinations, frenetic bursts of prose, collisions of style, celebrations of texture: although emerging largely from science fiction, these features of cyberpunk writing are, as this volume makes clear, integrally related to the aims and innovations of the literary avant-garde. By bringing together original fiction by well-known contemporary writers (William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany), critical commentary by some of the major theorists of postmodern art and culture (Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard), and work by major practitioners of cyberpunk (William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling), Storming the Reality Studio reveals a fascinating ongoing dialog in contemporary culture.
What emerges most strikingly from the colloquy is a shared preoccupation with the force of technology in shaping modern life. It is precisely this concern, according to McCaffery, that has put science fiction, typically the province of technological art, at the forefront of creative explorations of our unique age.
A rich opporunity for reading across genres, this anthology offers a new perspective on the evolution of postmodern culture and ultimately shows how deeply technological developments have influenced our vision and our art.
Selected Fiction contributors: Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Pat Cadigan, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Harold Jaffe, Richard Kadrey, Marc Laidlaw, Mark Leyner, Joseph McElroy, Misha, Ted Mooney, Thomas Pynchon, Rudy Rucker, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, William Vollman
Selected Non-Fiction contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Arthur Kroker and David Cook, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard, Larry McCaffery, Brian McHale, Dave Porush, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Takayuki Tatsumi
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Desert of the Real / Larry McCaffery 1
Cyberpunk 101: A Schematic Guide to Storming the Reality Studio / Richard Kadrey and Larry McCaffery 17
Fiction and Poetry
Beyond the Extinction of Human Life (from Empire of the Senseless) / Kathy Acker 33
From Crash / J.G. Ballard 41
Mother and I Would Like to Know (from The Wild Boys) / William S. Burroughs 44
Rock On / Pat Cadigan 48
Among the Blobs / Samuel R. Delany 56
From White Noise / Don DeLillo 63
From Neuromancer / William Gibson 65
Fistic Hermaphrodites / Rob Hardin 75
Microbes / Rob Hardin 76
Penetrabit: Slime Temples / Rob Hardin 77
nerve terminals / Rob Hardin 79
Max Headroom / Harold Jaffe 80
From Straight Fiction / Thom Jurek 85
The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche (from Metrophage) / Richard Kadrey 87
Office of the Future (from Dad's Nuke) / Marc Laidlaw 98
I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot (from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist) / Mark leyner 102
From Plus / Joseph McElroy 109
Wire Movement #9 / Misha 112
Wire for Two Tims / Misha 114
From Easy Travel to Other Planets / Ted Mooney 116
Frame 137 / Jim O'Barr 118
From The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon 122
From Software / Rudy Rucker 125
From Life During Wartime / Lucius Shepard 132
Stoked / Lewis Shiner 134
Wolves of the Plateau / John Shirley 139
Twenty Evocations / Bruce Sterling 154
The Marc Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar Zaibatsu: 2-1-'16 (from Schismatrix) / Bruce Sterling 162
The Indigo Engineers (from The Rainbow Stories) / William T. Vollmann 168
Non-Fiction
Before the Lights Came On: Observations of a Synergy / Steve Brown 173
The Automation of the Robot (from Simulations) / Jean Baudrillard 178
Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. 182
From Of Grammatology / Jacques Derrida 194
Yin and Yang Duke It Out / Joan Gordon 196
Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger 203
From Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism / Fredric Jameson 219
Television and the Triumph of Culture (from The Postmodern Scene) / Arthur Kroker and David Cook 229
Bet On It: Cyber/video/punk/performance / Brooks Landon 239
The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot / Timothy Leary 245
The Postmodern (from The Postmodern Condition) / Jean-Francois Lyotard 259
An Interview with William Gibson / Larry McCaffery 263
Cutting Up: Cyberpunk, Punk Music, and Urban Decontextualizations / Larry McCaffery 286
POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM / Brian McHale 308
The Wars of the Coin's Two Halves: Bruce Sterling's Mechanist/Shaper Narratives / Tom Maddox 324
Frothing the Synaptic Bath / David Porush 331
Literary MTV / George Slusser 334
Preface from Mirrorshades / Bruce Sterling 343
On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF / Darko Suvin 349
The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades / Takayuki Tatsumi 366
Bibliography 375
Contributors 385
