The Future Of the Cyberpunk literary movement
studen...@camins.camosun.bc.ca
cyberpunk literary movement.
1) What has happened to it since it 'became'. Is it dead, alive, or asymilated?
2) What is the 'new' movement that is or will form as the post cyberpunk
movement?
3)What will we call post-postmodernism?
Any input?
Studen...@camins.camosun.bc.ca
Matthew Robert Miller
Andrew Trapp
>I'd be interested to hear what the literary minded have to say regarding the
>cyberpunk literary movement.
>
>1) What has happened to it since it 'became'. Is it dead, alive, or asymilated?
I would say it's evolving, as it always is. To my knowledge (correct me if
I'm wrong), there haven't been too many new CP books or albums released
lately. A lot of CP's nowadays are becoming less and less distinguishable
from your average Joe NetSurfer, except that maybe they read Wired or use
Mozilla or still subscribe to one of the hacker newsgroups. But I'd rather
not get into another "what is a CP?" arguement.
>2) What is the 'new' movement that is or will form as the post cyberpunk
>movement?
Hard to say. Personally, I see the movement splitting up, "cyberpunk"
diverging into the "cybers" and the "punks". I also predict the cybers
will outgrow the punks in time, as both technology and the CP population
matures and evolves.
>3)What will we call post-postmodernism?
> Any input?
The modernism movement was doomed to be just a fad from the moment it
acquired that period-dependent name. Post-modernism was another attempt
to revive that movement. But come on, if modernism had lasted even a
decade, it wouldn't have been too modern now, wouldn't it? Whatever
post-postmodernism comes to be called, for its own sake it had better
adopt a more descriptive and less period-dependent name. Then again,
maybe having a period-dependent name _was_ descriptive of the time, when
forward-thinking was not as big a priority.
Just my $.29 for the day.
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Virtual Light, while not as Cyber-Punk as Neuromancer or Count Zero, is
still Punk. And, if nothing else, take a look at alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo...
While not all of it is professional quality work, there is unquestionably a
cyber-punk flavor to the bulk of it.
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studen...@camins.camosun.bc.ca wrote:
sure: I'd be interested to hear what the literary minded have to say
regarding the
sure: cyberpunk literary movement.
sure:
sure: 1) What has happened to it since it 'became'. Is it dead, alive, or
asymilated?
I think it is very alive. see alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo. Great stuff there!
Also, see the new (tho minimal at the moment) Chatsubo home page:
http://josaiah.sewanee.edu/chatsubo/cshome.html
sure: 2) What is the 'new' movement that is or will form as the post cyberpunk
sure: movement?
Dunno.
sure: 3)What will we call post-postmodernism?
CyberPunk.
sure: Matthew Robert Miller
elescryer