Follow-up questions - and what are all these other "-punks" - biopunk, steampunk, solarpunk, etc? Why are they all called -punk? And what is post-cyberpunk?

    • cresspacito [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Solarpunk - Everything's recycled, all energy is renewable, and everyone loves gardening and making bracelets out of re-used before-time stuff

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Steampunk was originally "imagine you're a luddite rebel smashing a Babbage machine"

      I've explained PostCyberpunk elsewhere in the thread as "What if we didn't use all this tech for evil capitalists?"

    • MerryChristmas [any]
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      3 years ago

      I think post-cyberpunk tends to refer to a lot of the scifi novels from the 90s that incorporate cyberpunk elements without the focus on themes like transhumanism and anti-capitalism. Basically, cyberpunk once it had been fully commodified.

      I was a teenager when I read all of this stuff so I could absolutely be wrong.