Is Black Mirror anti-cyberpunk? Characters tend to have a prim normie existence but just dealing with the weird consequences of advanced tech
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Well we are being unmade in actuality, hence the intrinsic spookiness of tech
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I think the basic premise is "We had just enough technology when I was a child. New stuff is scary and evil, let's go back."
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What I was sort of getting at is... it's a vision of the future where sociopolitical order is seemingly maintained but the tech gets weirder, rather than full descent into chaos as in Nick Land's Meltdown for example
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Tech is scary in many ways, I don't think we have alternatives to techonomic advance though, we can't pause where we are and we can't go back
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I think the fear of tech though has little to do with the technology itself, and more with distance from the comfort of childhood. Toefler touched on this back in 1970 with Future Shock.
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