This is my attempt to bridge the gap between cyberpunk fiction and our emerging reality. The genre splits into two distinct traditions: Japanese and Western—and I approach this primarily through my Western perspective as that is my culture, while also attempting to unpick elements of both.
I stumbled into cyberpunk accidentally. My writing naturally gravitated toward themes I later recognized belonged to this sci-fi subgenre. The realization clicked when I noticed how my taste in films, television, games, and even my professional work in data-driven marketing all converged within this framework.
What I've yet to fully examine is the blurring boundary between imagination and reality—not in the Lacanian sense, but in how our lived experience increasingly resembles yesterday's speculative fiction.
My goal is to peel back layers of creative expression that function as warnings about a world designed to exploit our desires, and how these same mechanisms enable our manipulation and subjugation.
I want to examine fictional works alongside our current reality, positioning ourselves as protagonists in our own cyberpunk narrative. Perhaps then we can redirect our collective story away from dystopia and develop strategies to protect what matters most in an increasingly surveilled existence.
