From Bodily Polymorphism in Cyberspace to Present Futurolog

Abstract

The article begins by considering that the intersection between technology and fiction becomes particularly important when considering that the very concept of cyberspace originated in William Gibsons cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer. Thus, the author relies on this novel to argue that cyberspace is presented as a technology of bodily polymorphism, as well as to investigate how cyberspace allows for the proposal of a cyberpunk futurology of the present that diverges from transhumanist predictions. Among other conclusions, the author maintains that we should replace the question of what kind of space cyberspace is with the question of how virtuality transforms the very notion of the body.