Abstract
Transhumanism foregrounds technological enhancement and transcendence, while cyberpunk engages with corporate power, social inequality, and bodily alienation. Their intersections, tensions, and contradictions open multiple perspectives on the changing meanings of the human. Transhumanism and Cyberpunk: Imagining Human Futures in Literature and Media, a volume in the Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology series, brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on technological transformation and its implications for human identity, embodiment, agency, and social structures. Drawing on literary and film studies, media theory, visual semiotics, and cultural studies, the volume explores literature, cinema, anime, speculative fiction, digital art, and contemporary technological practices. Its contributions examine how visions of biological enhancement, artificial intelligence, cybernetic bodies, ecological crisis, and posthuman existence are imagined and contested across diverse cultural contexts. Extending the discussion across diverse cultural and disciplinary contexts, the volume presents human futurity as a dynamic and contested space.
Table of Contents
Preface ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… v
Introduction: Imagining Human Futures between Transhumanism and Cyberpunk
Irem Atasoy ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 9
The Riddle of the (Trans)Human: From the Sphinx and Oedipus to Science Fiction Cinema
Dimitris Papacharalampous ……………………………………………………………………….. 23
Uncanny Bodies – Renaissance des Body Horrors
Julian Knabe ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 49
Love Will (Not) Save the World: Transhumanism after Evangelion in Mecha Anime
Malte Frey …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 69
Singularity, Neoliberalism and the Posthuman Condition: An Unconditional Accelerationist Reading of Charles Stross’s Accelerando
Márk Horváth & Ádám Lovász ……………………………………………………………………… 93
Influence of Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence on Service Quality and User Satisfaction in Mobile Money Service among Babcock University Users
Tina C. Touitou & Benjamin, A. N. Touitou ………………………………………………. 117
The Ladder of Divine Ascent and the Top of Arasaka Tower: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners as Scala Literature
Willow Sipling …………………………………………………………………………………………… 141
Mythologising Cyberpunk: Kalki 2898 AD and the Rewriting of Dystopia in Indian Cinema
Rajat Sharma …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 157
Halth Earth or: neoliberalist realism: David Bröderbauers Die Halbe Welt im Wechselspiel zwischen Cyberpunk und Solarpunk
Benedikt Pühretmayr …………………………………………………………………………………. 185
Performing the Untamed in (Post-)Cyberpunk Anime: Environmental Imagination and Media Ecology in Psycho-Pass
Malte Frey …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 211
From Text to Ruin: Adaptation, Excess, and Futurity in Andrzej Żuławski’s On the Silver Globe
Despoina Poulou ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 237
Lu Yang: Electromagnetic Brainology – die künstliche Superintelligenz als posthumane Spezies? Ästhetisch-spirituelle Zukunftsvisionen im transformativen Raum
Sandra Braun …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 259
Yapay Zekâ Çevirisi ve Çevirmenlik Mesleğine Yansımaları
Erdinç Aslan ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 295
