Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future.
I disagree, is the corporatocracy in snow crash really more extreme than that in neuromancer for example? compare the gargoyles and the head antenna in snow crash to the body mod/cybernetics in most cyberpunk, it just doesn't read as a parody to me
yes it's aware of cyberpunk tropes and deconstructs some of them, but that puts it firmly into the category of post-cyberpunk imo
What is it a parody of? Lol
Cyberpunk as a genre in general. Snow Crash took all the tropes that were beginning to be played out by then and dialed them all up to 11.
I disagree, is the corporatocracy in snow crash really more extreme than that in neuromancer for example? compare the gargoyles and the head antenna in snow crash to the body mod/cybernetics in most cyberpunk, it just doesn't read as a parody to me
yes it's aware of cyberpunk tropes and deconstructs some of them, but that puts it firmly into the category of post-cyberpunk imo