More specifically, Burning Chrome’s border-troubling cyberspace is populated by mythobodies/technobodies whose hybrid constitution and character throw into relief the patched and dispersed nature of subjectivity inaugurate reconfigurations of identity characterized by unprecedented mutability and a sense of borderlessness and precipitate a reconsideration of our conventional assumptions about ethnicity. Cyberpunk’s themes and imagery as they unfold through William Gibson’s constellation of narratives in the Burning Chrome collection (1987) might tempt one to even speculate about the very relevance, or lack thereof, of individual and collective markers of identity, such as ethnicity, within the cyber-inflected culturescapes they bring into being. Cyberpunk fictions of the late twentieth century have embarked on drastic departures from essentialist conceptualizations of identity.
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