Introduction
This Cyberpunk Vaudeville engages a dialogue between cyberpunk culture and the Vaudeville acts that were popular at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, which were usually composed of a series of extravagant performances interspersed with silent films. Cyberpunk novels like Gibson’s Neuromancer mixes references to high and low culture, such as street popular culture, hacker culture and Pychon’s visionary poetic style. Cyberpunk novels, like Pychon’s Gravity Rainbow and Burrough’s Blade Runner a Movie, acknowledge their cinematic inspiration. Fascinated by the contrast between embodied and disembodied experiences, these novels include a variety of fantasist performances and live stage performances, such as the exotic puppet dances in Neuromancer and the digital projection show in Gravity Rainbow.
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