11.08.20
The world of Cyberpunk (CP) narrative offers a great deal of potential insight into the exploration of technology in our lives. One of the most unique aspects of those stories includes an analysis and evaluation of what makes us human in the first place. Join us in the weeks and months ahead as we explore a unique set of stories and offer our Cyberized take on well-known characters and archetypes regarding how they can inform our journey to self-define our own identities in a tech-fueled world!
To Be Cyberized on 11.22.20
Forgive us as we chose to flip the script and offer the community, even more, this week. We’d been planning a character review of Alita but since we were also scheduling The Puppet Master from Ghost in the Shell to come as a follow-up anyway we couldn’t help ourselves when it came to the comparative opportunitiy between the two. This way, when you tune in next week for Alita, you can read our analysis with the combined excitement that the following week we are coming at ya’ with more AI character intensity and retrospective exploring Identity in all-new digital constructs in the following week’s edition!
Enter the Puppeteer
We are pleased to announce the third in our series on cyberpunk characters: Project 2501 (AKA The Puppet Master, AKA The Puppeteer). For another character with multiple iterations, we turn to the creation of one of our heroes Masanori Ota, more popularly known by his pen name Masamune Shirow. Where Alita took us into the emotive and exploratory concepts of identity as reflected upon through digital intelligence, we flip now to explore the intellectualized self-identification of an AI as a life form in the Puppet Master created by Ota.
For those of us always looking to cyberize ourselves and self-determine our worlds and determine our own identity, the portrait of The Puppet Master we are exploring can be found in The Ghost in the Shell Vol. 1 (Paperback copy for our review above; as for the link here – #CommissionsEarned) offers a unique opportunity for analysis and self-reflection as we digitize our worlds.