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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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've been pushed into the mega cities due to the pollution and wars... an I want 4 with noodles. No not two.. for. Two and two!
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:thinking: This is an interesting take, and maybe not off target by much. did Deckard know what he was and what he was doing? I'm basing this tweet on my faulty 50 year old memory of the movie. Or he is like us today, where that's enough interaction?
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