We are delighted to announce that our team member Sergio Salvador has successfully defended his doctoral thesis, Wired for Inequality: Power and Privilege in the Cyberpunk Dystopia, supervised by María Ferrández San Miguel and Francisco Collado Rodríguez.
Sergio’s dissertation offers an in-depth examination of cyberpunk fiction as a critical lens through which to explore contemporary questions of power, inequality, technological development, and social privilege. By analyzing dystopian worlds shaped by advanced technologies, corporate domination, and widening social divides, his research demonstrates how cyberpunk narratives continue to provide valuable insights into the structures and tensions that characterize the twenty-first century.
Cyberpunk has long been one of the most influential subgenres of science fiction, imagining futures in which technological innovation coexists with social fragmentation and economic disparity. Sergio’s work investigates how these narratives challenge dominant assumptions about technological progress, revealing the ways in which systems of power and privilege are reproduced, transformed, and contested within speculative futures.
The successful defense of Wired for Inequality represents a significant contribution to the fields of science fiction studies, cultural studies, and contemporary literary criticism. More broadly, the thesis highlights the continuing relevance of speculative fiction as a space for reflecting on urgent social, political, and ethical concerns.
We warmly congratulate Dr. Sergio Salvador on this important achievement and thank María Ferrández San Miguel and Francisco Collado Rodríguez for their supervision and support throughout the project.
We look forward to following the next stages of Sergio’s academic career and the future development of his research.