February 7, 2008
"Steampunk lives in the reincarnated collective past of shadows and ignored alleys. It is a historical wunderkabinet, which promises, like Dr. Caligari’s, to wake the somnambulist of the present to the dream-reality of the future. We are archaeologists of the present, reanimating a hallucinatory history."I have no idea what that means but I’m just going to shut-up and drink the Kool-Aid.(1)
Then there are disturbing genres like
ribofunk and
splatterpunk. I’ll pass on exploring the latter, but think the former is important particularly in light of
transhumanist ideals and the emerging
bioart /
symbioticA genres. I find it disturbing and frightening but something that needs to be more popularly discussed until of course it is too late if these become entrenched norms.
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