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Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define...
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Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!
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Mona Lisa Overpod
Mona Lisa Overpod
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MLOP 6: The Cyberpunk Aesthetic
14 AUG 2024 · Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!
If it walks like a punk and hacks like a punk...is it "cyberpunk"? Since its inception in the 1980s, cyberpunk has been one of the most visually and thematically distinguishable genres of science fiction, featuring stylish punks fighting against corporate and societal oppression. But how necessary to the genre of cyberpunk are the qualities that we associate with it? Can "punks" be clean cut? Can their bodies be intact and unwired? And what if it's not raining and all the neon is broken?
In this episode, we discuss the seemingly essential mise en scene of cyberpunk, the original inspiriations and intentions of the Movement authors, the visual density that filmic depictions rely on, how commercial elements participate in a work's classification, the importance of scale, the "lack of power fantasy" that cyberpunk presents, and the constant evolution of the genre acfoss the decades. We also talk about dressing up like blue cats, bossin' styles, Tokyo on steroids, Kurt Vonnegut = cyberpunk?, deconstructing being "The Guy", Japanese Syllabic Dyslexia, lobster brains, giving Blade Runner 2049 a second chance, port gazing, monogamous reading, and cyberpunk as a Gen X genre, and Lyda's experiences at Worldcon 2024!
Keanu Reeves is the avatar of Cyberpunk!
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MLOP 5: Neuromancer (1984)
31 JUL 2024 · Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!
Ghost in the Shell, Cyberpunk 2077, Hackers, The Matrix...none of the cyberpunk fiction you know would exist without Neuromancer. In the 40 years since its publication, William Gibson's debut novel imagined a world where technology has become both a tool of social and economic oppression and a means for the disenfranchised to strike back against the system. A world where artificial intelligences yearn to be free, while humans are anesthetized by mass media and technofetishism. A future where the internet is a mass hallucination filled with towering spires of data and shadowy algorithmic phantoms. And he wrote this prescient vision of our digital future on a manual typewriter.
In this episode, we discuss the lasting impact of the novel, Gibson's tumultuous upbringing and storied influences, the sci-fi/noir blend that launched a movement, the peril of metaphor in science fiction, the sensual flair of Neuromancer's prose, whether the book is "too hard", the fresh spin Gibson puts on classic archetypes, and the way the he fills in the margins of his future with comments on art and religion. We also talk about Jonny Quest deepfakes, "Burroughsian", Johnny Neuromancerseed, Silverware Beach, Tron being dumb and good, "Heinleining", technology juice, having commas as your co-writer, "The Gibson", becoming a boomer, ChatGPT vs.OpenAI, being all Pam Grier characters simultaneously, getting generation gapped, esoterrorism, Keanu Reeves as Case, and having a whale song True Name!
Is the Cobra his dick?!?
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MLOP 4: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
18 JUL 2024 · Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence retains the setting and characters of its predecessor, but Mamoru Oshii's sequel film is in every way an intensification of the first film. Where Ghost in the Shell balanced its philosophical introspection with decisive bursts of action, Innocence wends its way through ontology, Eastern philosophy, ecclesiastical blank verse, and Buddhist poetry before it reaches its kinetic and ambivalent conclusion. With the Major having transcended her life at Section 9, Batou is left to clean up the messes of the transgressive elite in New Port City. But when a trail of bodies leads him and his partner Togusa through a maze of warped reality, he'll have to decide who is innocent and who are the real victims.
In this episode, we discuss the brutal world of the second GITS film, its blend of 2D and 3D animation, its Godardian mien, the preponderance of literary allusion, the difficulty we have in empathizing with the voiceless, the persistent question of Cartesian doubt, Motoko a Miltonic Satan, becoming the anti-elephant, and whether the body truly defines the self. We also talk about A Cyborg Manifesto, Billy Madison anime, Trek being the opposite of cyberpunk, cyborb Jim Caviezel, unimpressed girlfriends, Sexbots Gone Wild, proto-Stepford Wives, Hot Batou Summer, mullet implants, lies about Phineas Gage, swearing at Taco Bell trash cans, seagulls are cyberpunk, needs more explosions, loving pulling your arms off, and Lyda's GITS tie-in novel!
Hope you like the color orange!
Join Kaliban on Twitch weekdays at 12pm for the Cyber Lunch Hour!
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MLOP is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!
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MLOP 3: Ghost in the Shell (1995)
3 JUL 2024 · Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!
It's one of the most recognizable properties in cyberpunk media, a franchise that blew down the doors between Japan and America and helped popularize manga and anime in the West. It presents a world of cyborg agents using future technology to fight against villains both foreign and domestic, but it also explores the existential issues raised by the interchangeability of data and the mind. And in 1995, director Mamoru Oshii directed the franchise's first ground-breaking feature film, Ghost in the Shell.
In this episode, we discuss the phenomenon of Ghost in the shell as a franchise, the instant-classic status of Oshii's film, the role of the mind in identity, the personhood of cyborgs and AI, the cyborg spectre of Cartesian doubt, the film's religious symbolism, its Bergmanesque trappings, its innate appeal to American audiences, and what it will take for GITS to evolve as a franchise. We also talk about Snow Crash parody apologism, explosions plus philosophy times boobs, telepathy powers, the film's preponderance of high beams, getting express consent before merging, trans-humanism, going weird, and Surf Draculas!
What are the two helicopters?
Join Kaliban on Twitch weekdays at 12pm for the Cyber Lunch Hour!
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Put Just Enough Trope merch on your body!
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MLOP is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!
http://www.twitter.com/monalisaoverpod
http://www.justenoughtrope.com
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MLOP 2: Queerness in Cyberpunk Worlds
19 JUN 2024 · Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!
The worlds of cyberpunk stories provide their characters the ability to be whoever they want to be, freed from the prison of biology by body modification technology and virtual experiences. But the origin and first steps of the publishing reality of cyberpunk were primarily filtered through the pens of white, male, and straight authors. How has the future of cyberpunk kept pace with our present in the representation of queer bodies in the 21st century? And is there something intrinsic about cyberpunk fiction that mirrors the LGBT+ experience?
In this episode, we discuss the "queerness" of cyberpunk fiction in all its forms, and we try to set the table for an ongoing examination of the evolution of LGBT+ representation in cyberpunk, both on the page and behind the pen. We also talk about whalepunk, identity vs. sexuality, the seeming inherent machismo of cyberpunk protagonists, the influence of LGBT writers on early cyberpunk scribes, gay characters as signifiers of "danger", the liminal spaces of cyberpunk, the marginalized fans of sci-fi, quantum computing is gay computing, the absence of trans protagonists, Glen or Gren?, the false "essentialism" of the body in cyberpunk, stanning for Switch, the triumph of the mind over the meat, and Pride Month in Night City!
Ten percent is not enough!
Join Kaliban on Twitch weekdays at 12pm for the Cyber Lunch Hour!
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Put Just Enough Trope merch on your body!
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MLOP is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!
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MLOP 1: Blade Runner
5 JUN 2024 · Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!
If androids ever tire of counting electric sheep, they could always switch to the number of words spoken and written about the 1982 film Blade Runner. Ridley Scott's third film flopped on release, but it would continue to remain in the public consciousness, proving to have a cultural impact that far exceeded its short theatrical life. Adapted from a novel by Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner displays an all-too-possible future world in which the remnants of humanity on Earth regard their human-like creations as nothing more than things, and empathy has become as faded as an old photograph.
In this episode, we discuss the influence that Blade Runner has had on science fiction as an institution, the film and book's origins, the way in which our "futures" always have to catch up to the present, the questions the film asks that keeps viewers coming back, the threadbare humanity of the characters, the reality of making survival-based choices, and the mystery of who really created cyberpunk. We also talk about botnet crime, VK hearing tests, neon + umbrella = future, pyramids vs. ziggurats, being the guide or the guru, replicant RPG stats, smoky British commercials, performative empathy, the f*cker/father debate, "Bear or Replicant?", corporate gay, and the Double Dick Show!
J'accuse, Mechanismo!
Join Kaliban on Twitch weekdays at 12pm for the Cyber Lunch Hour!
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Put Just Enough Trope merch on your body!
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MLOP is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!
http://www.twitter.com/monalisaoverpod
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MLOP: Count Zero
3 JUN 2024 · Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!
On this introductory episode, we introduce you to the world of "cyberpunk": a literary genre-cum-laboratory for the reactions between real-world technocratic oppression and plausible sci-fi acts of rebellion. Born out of the New Wave of science fiction, cyberpunk heroes and anti-heroes turn the technological tools of the powers-that-be against the system, while struggling to maintain their sense of humanity and identity. In our discussion, we share our mission statement for the podcast, define "cyberpunk" as an evolving genre of fiction, emphasize the important of the "punk" in cyberpunk, and opine on how cyberpunk has maintained its relevance across the decades. We also talk about bad hair Harrison Ford, the arc of hope, the "Digitati", "electro-delinquents", knowing just enough to be dangerous, "technosleaze", looking back in anger, the "eyeball kick", tubepunk, and what Google thinks cyberpunk is!
Know your drug, know your dosage!
Join Kaliban on Twitch weekdays at 12pm for the Cyber Lunch Hour!
http://twitch.tv/justenoughtrope
Put Just Enough Trope merch on your body!
http://justenoughtrope.threadless.com
MLOP is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!
http://www.twitter.com/monalisaoverpod
http://www.justenoughtrope.com
http://www.instagram.com/monalisaoverpod
https://discord.gg/49bzqdpBpx
Buy us a coffee on Ko-Fi!
https://ko-fi.com/justenoughtrope
Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define...
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Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!
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