Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Li, Alphin..

Taylor & Francis

Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science FictionLiving on the Edge of Burnout\nAuthor(s): Caroline Alphin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367490997, 978-0367490997\nSynopsis\nCaroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction.\n\nComprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is guided by four central themes: biopolitics, intensification, resilience, and accelerationism. The first chapters examine the political possibilities of cyberpunk as a genre of science fiction and introduce one kind of neoliberal subject, the self-monitoring cyborg. These are individuals who join fitness/health tracking devices and applications to their body to \""self-cultivate\"". Here, Alphin presents concrete examples of how fitness trackers are a strategy of neoliberal governmentality under the guise of self-cultivation. Moving away from Fouc.