The dialectics of Night City: How ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ anticipated our hypercapitalist dystopia
Good Morning, Night City! It has been a few years since Cyberpunk: Edgerunners clinched Anime of the Year, over half a decade since CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 rehabilitated itself from a catastrophic launch into a retrospective videogame masterpiece, and more than forty years since William Gibson first codified this particular dystopia in the seminal…