Abstract
As the rapid development of technology at the end of the 20th century, the widespread use of computers, mobile phones and virtual reality has changed our life. In the 1960s American literary novels, cyberpunk worldview started to widen the imagination of the future. In the cyberpunk world, many issues like race, politics, and science have been mentioned. With strong cultural conflicts, the social structure and visual style made the cyberpunk style an important theme in movies and games. High-tech and wealth gap issues usually be mentioned in cyberpunk worlds to make a strong contrast, promoting protagonists who may be underprivileged youth or have different thinking patterns from ordinary people begin to resist with dystopian spiritual awareness. The conflict of sensory brings viewers a different cultural experience. Human-machine-integrated cyborgs and human-like robots have been debated for their own existence, as posthumanism becomes one of the common topics in cyberpunk research.In this thesis, the evolution of cyberpunk would be sorted out, and the relationship between cyberpunk and the social environment would be analyzed by taking the series of " Cyberpunk " as an example. From the cyborg in the virtual world to the post-human development process in real life, the subject consciousness in the post-human would be discussed. The change of human appearance would be reviewed through the concepts of cyborg digital creation, digital technology, and the development of VTuber. The human body is also be transformed into "disappearance" and "incarnation" through "replacement", "enhancement", and " amplification. " The infinite imagination of the virtuality becomes the place where the emotions to express, make virtuality becomes reality and ideality.
| Date of Award | 2022 |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Supervisor | Ya-Lun Wang (Supervisor) |