https://vegasharmon.com/tags/biopunk/ Recent content in Biopunk on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/biopunk-and-the-posthuman-predicament/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/biopunk-and-the-posthuman-predicament/ It is from within the genre tradition of science fiction and especially cyberpunk that biopunk was born into a world that has become science-fictional itself. At the heart of this development lies the realization that we are now not ‘considered fully human’ and that ‘after the postmodern, the post-colonial, the post-industrial, the post-communist and even the much contested post-feminist conditions, we seem to have entered the post-human predicament’ (Braidotti 1), one clear indication of which seems to be that ‘contemporary science and biotechnologies affect the very fibre and structure of the living and have altered dramatically our understanding of what counts as the basic frame of reference for the human today’ (Braidotti 40). https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/cyberpunk-versus-biopunk/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/cyberpunk-versus-biopunk/ This opposition of mechanical versus biological augmentation then prompts McHale to conclude in regard to his cyberpunk poetics that there are two sets of posthuman conceits employed by the authors: ‘We might call the first set, corresponding to the Mech option, cyberpunk proper, and the second set, corresponding to the Shaper option, “bio-punk”’ (ibid.).