cyberpunk
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English
Etymology
cyber- + -punk, coined by American writer and software developer Bruce Bethke as the title of a 1983 short story, and later popularized by Gardner Dozois.
Noun
cyberpunk (countable and uncountable, plural cyberpunks)
- (science fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
- 1991 January 7, Lewis Shiner, “Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- But by 1987, cyberpunk had become a cliche. Other writers had turned the form into formula: implant wetware (biological computer chips), government by multinational corporations, street-wise, leather-jacketed, amphetamine-loving protagonists and decayed orbital colonies.
- 2015, Abby H. P. Werlock, Encyclopedia of the American Short Story, Infobase Learning, →ISBN:
- Cyberpunk stories are set in a futuristic, dystopic environment—the opposite of utopian—in which computer technology plays an important role. […] The protagonists of cyberpunk stories are technologically proficient, lonely adventurers struggling with issues of identity and forced to use computer skills to fight menacing forces of domination.
- (countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
- The film The Matrix redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.
- (countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
- 1989 January, SPIN, volume 4, number 10, page 50:
- […] cyberpunks like William Gibson, Lucious Sheperd, Bruce Sterling […]
- (music, uncountable) A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.
- 2003, Jan Haluska, The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems, →ISBN, page 109:
- A more technologically elaborate current of microtonal music can be found at M.I.T and Berklee College of Music, where R. Boulanger works in exotic equal temperaments and non-octave scales (E60 and the 13th root of 3, i.e. the Bohlen-Pierce scale) using the CSOUND acoustic compiler, the Mathews radio drum and various MIDI synthesizers; nearby, E. Mullen performs cyberpunk music in E19 and the 13th root of 3.
- 2014, Gemma White, Furniture is Disappearing, →ISBN, page 41:
- At Meredith we stayed up all night listening to doof doof cyberpunk music and I saw you cry for the first time, at four in the morning bottle of ice tea and vodka in hand I saw your real face and something changed.
- 2017, Tristanne Connolly, Tomoyuki Iino, Canadian Music and American Culture: Get Away From Me, →ISBN, page 182:
- Indeed, 'Mindphaser' (and Tactical Neural Implant more generally) represents a high point of cyberpunk in the industrial music scene.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
sci-fi subgenre
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Further reading
cyberpunk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Bruce Bethke (1997) “The Etymology of Cyberpunk”, in brucebethke.com, archived from the original on 2013-07-16
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
cyberpunk
- Alternative spelling of kyberpunk
Declension
| Inflection of cyberpunk (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | cyberpunk | — | ||
| genitive | cyberpunkin | — | ||
| partitive | cyberpunkia | — | ||
| illative | cyberpunkiin | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | cyberpunk | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | cyberpunk | — | |
| gen. | cyberpunkin | |||
| genitive | cyberpunkin | — | ||
| partitive | cyberpunkia | — | ||
| inessive | cyberpunkissa | — | ||
| elative | cyberpunkista | — | ||
| illative | cyberpunkiin | — | ||
| adessive | cyberpunkilla | — | ||
| ablative | cyberpunkilta | — | ||
| allative | cyberpunkille | — | ||
| essive | cyberpunkina | — | ||
| translative | cyberpunkiksi | — | ||
| abessive | cyberpunkitta | — | ||
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
cyberpunk m (plural cyberpunks)
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English cyberpunk.
Pronunciation
Noun
cyberpunk m inan
- (film, science fiction) cyberpunk (sci-fi subgenre)
Declension
Declension of cyberpunk
| singular | |
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| nominative | cyberpunk |
| genitive | cyberpunku |
| dative | cyberpunkowi |
| accusative | cyberpunk |
| instrumental | cyberpunkiem |
| locative | cyberpunku |
| vocative | cyberpunku |
Noun
cyberpunk m pers
- (film, science fiction) cyberpunk (cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life)
Declension
Declension of cyberpunk
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cyberpunk | cyberpunki |
| genitive | cyberpunka | cyberpunków |
| dative | cyberpunkowi | cyberpunkom |
| accusative | cyberpunka | cyberpunków |
| instrumental | cyberpunkiem | cyberpunkami |
| locative | cyberpunku | cyberpunkach |
| vocative | cyberpunku | cyberpunki |
Derived terms
adjective
Further reading
- cyberpunk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cyberpunk in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
cyberpunk m (plural cyberpunks)
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
cyberpunk c
Declension
| Declension of cyberpunk | ||||
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| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | cyberpunk | cyberpunken | — | — |
| Genitive | cyberpunks | cyberpunkens | — | — |