Cyberpunk

In fiction, the digital world is portrayed through imagery and character. These are methods of communication that translate easily to audiences. In reality, however, discussions of the digital are described through metaphor and thought experiments. We seek to either concretize the digital through examining historical developments in technology or abstract the digital in philosophical debate. A third option, as proposed by Daniel Downes in Interactive Realism: The Poetics of Cyberspace, is to…

Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield, Harry Potter’s Severus Snape, and Neuromancer’s Henry Case all share something in common—they are antiheroes. Merriam-Webster’s definition of an antihero is, “a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities” (Merriam-Webster). While that is the ‘dictionary definition,’ many authors have taken liberties in describing which “heroic qualities” are missing, and which traits are used instead (Merriam-Webster). Through a…

Abstract Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs as a “paradigm case” of transformational leadership by comparing the practical met discourse of remembrances published at the time of his passing to the theoretical met discourse of transformational leadership. This assignment of transformational leadership characteristics that appeared in characterizations of Jobs in the months after his passing in October 2011. Jobs as a leader and as one whom possessed and very motivational, three key…