I'd argue that cyberpunk wasn't primarilly about the net or cyberwear, it was about: * a visual aesthetic * a "street" / punk / outsider aesthetic * a sense of rootless anomie Recall that Gibson was influenced by "Beats" : people who don't fit in and thus fall into intersticeshttps://twitter.com/DaddyWarpig/status/1205257697429352450 …
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3/ I was thinking recently about Blade Runner. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is set in an underpopulated world because of plagues. Blade Runner has very dense street scenes - overpopulation? And yet, it FEELS lonely. I thought about how and why that is.
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4/ In the street scenes you see huge masses of people ... but our viewpoint character, Deckard, never speaks to them. He talks briefly to a noodle bar vendor, but they don't share a language and no communication occurs. Deckard is on crowded streets, but is entirely alone.
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5/ Deckard has no friends. No colleagues. His interactions with Bryant are cool. With Gaff, fraught with danger. All of his interactions have massive power imbalances, either up or down.
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6/ That sense of loneliness, alienation, and massive power imbalances - with the corporations towering over you with their billboards and the government with its blimps - seems to be the aesthetic heart of cyberpunk. /exeunt
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7/ For capturing pure loneliness, Dogfight by Gibson and
@MichaelSwanwick delivers the pure uncut stuff. https://twitter.com/PrisonIslandHed/status/1205259995689807872 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
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The sci-fi elements are only there to shed light on the human elements.
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