Cyberpunk is a radical interrogation of the technologies at work in contemporary society. Cyberpunk is an interzone between hard technologies, the sciences, mysticism and nihilo-romantic surreality. Cyberpunk has a strong garage band aesthetic. It grapples with the raw core of our near future, its myths, its ideas, its coming practices. It is a pop culture which is theorizing itself into a more cohesive and self-determined existence.
Cyberpunk intuitively understands that technical culture is moving very fast.
The advances of science are deeply radical - potentially revolutionary even, if utilized appropriately. Certain central themes spring up repeatedly in cyberpunk. Firstly the theme of body invasion, prosthetic limbs, implanted circuitry, cosmetic surgery, genetic alteration. The technical revolution reshaping our society is based not in hierarchy but in decentralization, not in rigidity, but in fluidity. In cyberpunk, geographical frontiers no longer exist and in their place are vast micro-electronic territories.