This weeks lecture topic was Cyberpunk... which would have been better to have last week... considering the tute exercise we had. But anywho I get over that.
Once again Daniel opened me up to another interesting topic. Thankfully this week was much easier to follow compared to last week. Daniel manage to explain a bit about cyberpunk and were it all began. Cyberpunk's common theme or tone is the dark seedy side of humanity; lust for something and capital, which is street cred or as Daniel put it cold, hard mother f#$%ing money.
Daniel also talked about William Gibson, who is a leading writer on cyberpunk. We watched some clips of him and his work at the end of one William mentioned Gabriel's hounds, Daniel asked if anyone knew what he was talking about... No one did so he left it to us to find out.
What I found was either it is a reference to a band or a pack of hounds lead by the Angel Gabriel. I think it was a reference to the later. The hounds are ment to fly across the sky and bring ill fortune and death to anyone who hears them. So they are a kind of dooms day, end of normality kind of thing, which is a theme of cyberpunk.
With the semester break coming up I think I'll hunt down one of William Gibson's books down and see if it's all that Daniel made it out to be.
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