The (Possible) Future of Cyborg Healthcare: Depictions of Disability in Cyberpunk 2077

IF 2.5 3区哲学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-17 DOI:10.1080/09505431.2021.1956888

A. Fox

引用次数: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT In the social imagination, cyborgs often invoke visions of super-humans entangled with cutting-edge technology capable of surpassing the limits of the human body. However, the focus on futuristic high-tech hybrids often overlooks the challenges and demands of disabled people – people who already experience life as cyborgs. Differently abled people are frequently under-or-un-represented within popular culture and media. And representation is often limited to super-abled tropes or redemption through technology. Video games are not exceptional in their representation of disabled people. This review will focus more intensely on how disability is depicted in the American dark future of Cyberpunk 2077. Ultimately recognizing that while this game could benefit from rendering its themes of interdependency, trust, maintenance, more salient for a general audience, Cyberpunk 2077 ultimately embraces a more robust representation of healthcare challenges and experiences of differently abled people than many other games featuring cyborgs.

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电子人医疗保健(可能的)未来:《赛博朋克2077》中对残疾的描述

摘要在社会的想象中，半机械人经常唤起超级人类与能够超越人体极限的尖端技术纠缠在一起的景象。然而，对未来高科技混合动力车的关注往往忽视了残疾人的挑战和需求——他们已经体验到了半机械人的生活。不同能力的人在流行文化和媒体中的代表性往往不足或缺乏。代表性往往局限于超能力的比喻或通过技术进行救赎。电子游戏在代表残疾人方面并不例外。这篇综述将更集中地关注《赛博朋克2077》中美国黑暗的未来是如何描绘残疾的。《赛博朋克2077》最终认识到，虽然这款游戏可以从将其相互依存、信任、维护的主题呈现给普通观众中受益，但与许多其他以半机械人为主角的游戏相比，它最终更有力地展现了不同能力人群的医疗挑战和体验。

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Science As Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

5.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

期刊介绍： Our culture is a scientific one, defining what is natural and what is rational. Its values can be seen in what are sought out as facts and made as artefacts, what are designed as processes and products, and what are forged as weapons and filmed as wonders. In our daily experience, power is exercised through expertise, e.g. in science, technology and medicine. Science as Culture explores how all these shape the values which contend for influence over the wider society. Science mediates our cultural experience. It increasingly defines what it is to be a person, through genetics, medicine and information technology. Its values get embodied and naturalized in concepts, techniques, research priorities, gadgets and advertising. Many films, artworks and novels express popular concerns about these developments. In a society where icons of progress are drawn from science, technology and medicine, they are either celebrated or demonised. Often their progress is feared as ’unnatural’, while their critics are labelled ’irrational’. Public concerns are rebuffed by ostensibly value-neutral experts and positivist polemics. Yet the culture of science is open to study like any other culture. Cultural studies analyses the role of expertise throughout society. Many journals address the history, philosophy and social studies of science, its popularisation, and the public understanding of society.