Social and Temporal geographies of the near future: Music, fiction and youth culture

摘要

Cyberpunk has been widely acknowledged as a form of popular fiction, which has done much to establish the potential of information technology in the popu- lar imagination. Commonly these extrapolations are predicated on the shared diegesis of a dark future, that is a setting of urban decay and oppressive corpor- ate capital. British publishing has taken longer to develop this style of critical dystopian writing. The differences between the two groups of fiction can be understood as different responses to cultural change, which has taken place during the 1980s especially in the ways ad means of imagining further social change and agency.