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cmder
Why are there cyberpunk people that aren’t anti-capitalism? Did y’all like space on the whole underlying theme of cyberpunk?
I think most modern cyberpunk people like it *because* of the rampant industrialization and limitations of personal freedoms that lead to neat shiny technology and don’t focus on the actual implications anymore
it’s the same kind of material fetishism you see from nerds who like gundam and warhammer 40k and shit. they just miss the point completely being made because the technology looks cool/blows shit up.
cmder
Where’s that comic?
peskymagician
Maybe people can like a certain aesthetic independent of any sort of these social structures. Cyberpunk can exist capitalistically, communistically, or within whatever sort of economic system you can come up with. It is literally all made up. Distopian and Utopian settings can absolutely be orthogonal to the cyberpunk aesthetic; it would be a fallacy to bind the cyberpunk aesthetic to a particular economic or social structure. Of course there are correlations, but that doesn’t mean that there are really any deep causal relationships here. The same goes with other literary genres. Sometimes things don’t have to exist holistically.
cmder
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the cyberpunk genre: capitalism is bad because it reduces human beings to their labor, using technology as an aesthetic is a metaphor for the automatonation of human existence. the underprivileged exploit the technology that constrains them to fight against an oppressive system in order to rise up and find an identity in a controlling world where your worth is defined only by your body
tim soret: ooooo pretty robot lights
Honest Posters of Our Relationship with Technology
Designer Ajit Johnson, living in England, has imagined a series of posters called “#This_Generation”. With honesty, the posters show anecdotes linked to our daily relationship with technology and social networks.
imcomingbackmurph
“Can’t work a computer to it’s full potential or send an email, proceeds to ask someone a 1/3 to ½ their age for help.” #LastGeneration
“Can’t accept the fact that meaningful relationships can be made online, struggles to respect and accept said relationships.” #LastGeneration
“Has drained and abused the Earth for it’s resources, and believes that a young person would choose internet over survival. Expects us to survive and solve the problems they have created.“ #LastGeneration
“Does not understand that phones are meant for communication, also does not understand that the average semester lasts 4 months.” #LastGeneration
“Refuses to give proper sex education, shames the younger generation for not knowing.” #Last Generation
“Does not understand how social media works and that not deleting/avoiding your recent ex online is just as bad as seeing them every day.” #LastGeneration
“Also texts and drives, pretends that they are not responsible for any accidents caused by their idiot mistakes.” #LastGeneration
“Shames teenagers for taking photos of themselves that make them feel positive about their physical image, probably can’t work the camera themselves.]” #LastGeneation
“Believes that a person’s way of texting with people they are comfortable with is a sign of their intelligence level, texts just as bad, if not worse.” #LastGeneration
“Believes our generation are internet druggies, does not even acknowledge our reasons for being online, or what we do online.” #LastGeneration
“Has caused wars, economic failures, environmental disasters, perpetuated hate based on gender/race/sexuality/religion [or lack of]/and more, pretends that the younger generation is the problem.” #LastGeneration
quirk-of-art
Whoop there it is
actual-poop
edison is a which, technology is the devil etc etc
japanesewaxwing
I didn’t know Banksy made infographics
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A paper titled “Get me off your f*cking mailing list” has been accepted by the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology. But, as Joseph Stromberg reports for Vox , there’s more going on here than just a hilariously missing-in-action...
shitposting-sjw-garbage
so i clicked the link to that last article i reblogged and found this and oh my god
this person is 1000% done
“Despite how fancy the journal sounds, the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology is actually an open-access publication that spams thousands of scientists every day with the offer of publishing their work - for a price, of course. Back in 2005, US computer scientists David Mazières and Eddie Kohler created this 10-page paper as a joke response they could send to annoying and unwanted conference invitations… The PDF went pretty viral in academic circles, and then recently an Australian scientist named Peter Vamplew sent it off to the pain-in-the-ass International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology in the hope that the editors would open it, read it and take him off their f*cking list. Instead, Scholarly Open Access reports that they took it as a real submission and said they’d publish it for $150. Apparently the journal even sent the paper to an anonymous reviewer who said it was ‘excellent’.”
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eggcup
with the technology in iphones and the fact they use cheap sweatshop labor there’s at least a 200% profit on those things.
you could build a high end computer for less money than an iphone. it’s ridiculous. smart phones are extremely good things but they really are price gouging
This is why I love competition in the market. Ultimately I don’t think Apple can sustain this model. Electronics prices are falling on average but theirs are going up and their competitors are offering similar technologies. They can’t live off their brand forever.
what competitors? samsung? that’s the only major one I can think of.
most tech companies do the exact same thing and use sweatshop labor in the same areas. they also overprice products compared to their cost to be made.
this is like…the entire tech industry. no matter how better they seem, they’re willing to fuck over the environment, underpay and exploit people, steal resources, etc.
competition really doesn’t eliminate any of these unnecessary and harmful practices…
dynacap
Good to see nothing’s changed
Once a cyberpunk, always a cyberpunk
leftclausewitz
See now with Pokemon Go and the horrifying politics we are now 100% fully in a Cyberpunk novel
leftclausewitz
Like I completely see like horrifying politics (riots, terrible politicians, etc) being in the background of some 80s cyberpunk novel about an AR video game
- Cyberpunk, as a genre: a commentary on the relationship between corporations and government in capitalist society, particularly in regards to corruption, oppression, control of media, manipulation of public opinion through propaganda, etc
- Some chungus white boy: hell yea dude, fight the system. check out my cyberpunk game where the sjws have taken over and ruined society by paying everyone enough money to afford to survive
is… is this supposed to be the plot? “universal basic income is bad”?
what?
its not even “people struggle to find work” its “people dont need to work anymore and can spend their time as they choose” like that’s the polar opposite of a problem
how do you miss the point of cyberpunk that bad
cyberpunk has gradually become so style over substance theres now going to literally be a cyberpunk game that goes completely against the ideals of the genre, amazinng
