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Cyberpunk

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"High tech, low life."

"The street finds its own uses for things."

We all know the quotes and the books. But cyberpunk is more than a neon-soaked, cybernetic aesthetic, or a gritty dystopian science fiction genre. It is a subculture composed of two fundamental ideas: PUNK, and CYBER.

The PUNK: antiauthoritarian, anticapitalist, radical freedom of expression, rejection of tradition, a DIY ethic.

The CYBER: all that, but high-fuckin'-tech, ya feel? From DIYing body mods to using bleeding edge software to subvert corporate interests. It's punk for the 22nd century.

This is a community dedicated to discussing anything cyberpunk, be it books, movies, or other art that falls into the genre, or real life tech, projects, stories, ideas or anything else that adheres to these ideals. It's a place for 'punks from all over the federated Net to hang out and swap stories and meaningful content (not just pictures of city nightscapes).

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It's the same as the city, Sarah knows, the same hierarchy of power, beginning with the blocs in the orbits and ending with people who might as well be the fieldmice in front of the blades of the harvester, pointless, countless lives in the path of a structure that can't be stopped. She feels the anger coiling around her like armor. The chance to rest, she thinks, was nice while it lasted. But right now another fragment of time must be survived.

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[–] TessierAshpool 3 points 1 year ago

Ooh might have to give this a read!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hardwired was awesome! I really liked how it took place outside of the big cities for the most part. A lot of cyberpunk just stays in the city limits. Mega City 1 basically has anything outside of the (admittedly huge) city completely unlivable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I enjoyed that part of Hardwired a lot as well. As alluring and interesting as sprawling neon megalopolises of the dark future are, contrast and variety is good.