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   novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 09:51:57 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

   "Someone has said, that "cyberpunk is dead". Is that true?

   No, no, and no. As a science fiction genre cyberpunk maybe has mutated into something called post-cyberpunk science fiction, but the original cyberpunk now lives at more higher level: it has become a living subculture for many people in the Net and so called real life, whatever it is. To the current generation, cyberpunk is synonymous with the hacker underground, non-luddite forms of anarchy, and the strategy (borrowed from C-punk literature) of extrapolating "20 minutes into the future." Cyberpunk has come to mean simply the grafting of high-technology onto underground, street, and avant pop culture.

   So, punk is dead. Science fiction styles come, change, and go. But CYBERPUNK lives!"

   http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/dead.html

   #cyberpunk #anarchy #hacker

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     support ur local fucc dealer 🍉 (bluejorts@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 14:55:08 JST support ur local fucc dealer 🍉

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     @anarchopunk_girl

     i'd, also, like to debate "punk is dead". punk as a "social movement for the wannabe-counterculture youth of mainstream parents" is shambling Romero-style thanks to consumerism turning it into a Trend (i'd argue the "late-60s Civil Rights-marching, college kids" were a proto-punk group)....but, "punk as ideology" is alive and well methinks, particularly in the queer community, naturally.

     I've got a pet theory (probably lukewarm) that Cyberpunk is a new-yet-old thing, again (cuz Y2K kinda tried), because of it's inclusion of socioeconomics Dommed by portable(!!!) technology and the transitioning of servile yet tempestuous human flesh into more sustainable, mechanical forms with changeable and modifiable parts that can range from the most androgynous to the most camp. Veeeery satisfying to an oppressed group looking to "trans-form" themselves physically and mentally away from systemic oppressions into an interconnected...Web, shall we say, while still maintaining an overall identify of "queerpunk"(?)

     dammit, i'm gonna end up writing this whole zine in toots, aren't i...

     #cyperpunk #anarchism #itCameFromTheZine

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 20:53:36 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @bluejorts yeah I wouldn't say punk is dead either, at least for me. I think of myself as even more of an old school punk than a cyberpunk if anything. And yeah I do think cyberpunk as a subculture as a lot of potential to come back, even if it existed and then kinda petered out in the 1990s-2000s

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     support ur local fucc dealer 🍉 (bluejorts@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 05:43:00 JST support ur local fucc dealer 🍉

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     @anarchopunk_girl yep, then the New Wave that is Social Media and having an "online presence" (smartphone, email, and now follower counts [cringe]) being mandatory for most jobs slingshotted us right back lol