Response to Survival vs. Living: The Search for Moxie
I feel that rebelling against the corporations is the characters way of surviving in this society, where they must have some sort of voice in order to keep living. This […]
Category Archives: Moxyland
Response to a Response of Manipulation in Moxyland
I agree that manipulation is not the only factor in play, since dependence does has a major role in how the corporations manipulate the people of this society. However, I […]
response to manipulation in moxyland
The manipulation of and by technology in the novel Moxyland is an issue that people have anxiety about today, and I think the novel does a really great job of […]
Response to Manipulation in Moxyland
Looking at a genre like “Cyberpunk” at first glance as something that could be fathomable within real life contexts seems silly when one is first introduced to the genre, but […]
Survival vs. Living: The Search for Moxie
In Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland, the titular Moxy does not only refer to the mascot in Tendeka and skyward*’s online game. Moxy is actually a misspelling of moxie, a word that refers to one’s […]
Global Capitilism and a Dystopian South Africa – Trencherman by Eben Venter and Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
Ch. 6: Global Capitilism and a Dystopian South Africa – Trencherman by Eben Venter and Moxyland by Lauren Beukes By: Andries Visagie http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=6_yrAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA95&dq=moxyland+by+lauren+beukes&ots=xfI5W2Msxl&sig=Nssix7BCHcIm8CUo2zT6TD3tAbk#v=onepage&q=moxyland%20by%20lauren%20beukes&f=false This chapter comes from Paul Crosthwaite’s book, […]
Response to Manipulation in Moxyland
Though the characters are influenced by corportaions and technology how much are they actually manipulated? I am not so sure that it is manipulation rather than dependence. The characters depend […]
Manipulation in Moxyland
The cyberpunk novel Moxyland by Lauren Beukes is a very interested novel in how it predicts the near future to operate. While the setting is specifically placed in Cape Town, […]
South African Literature After Apartheid 