(I'm reposting from Tumblr (hence why it's kind of short and in parts), but I said you'd get some loving today, I meant it. I have decided to look at cyberpunk as a fashion. There's going to be an interesting conclusion to all this I think. Of course, comment, please, I'd love to hear some opinions on this.)
First… let’s define cyberpunk as a style/fashion.
No one can actually really agree on this. The very early 80’s is when the word was born, and thus the basic concepts.
The 90’s were pretty influential on defining the cyberpunk fashion.
In the 80’s movies like Mad Max and Tank Girl in the 90’s as well as the
grunge movement, kind of took the style of cyberpunk to a more post
apocalyptic feel.
Then millennium came along with movies like the Matrix and influenced the style into more of a fight the machine style.
Though the Matrix could be looked on as anti establishment, but
instead of government control, machines rule the world, and the fight is
against the machine.
But really, in the beginning, the concept was a very dirty future where computers and humans came together.
The Matrix is a movie that in my opinion doesn’t fit cyberpunk at
all. Cyberpunk was about integrating technology into the human world and
learning to work with it, The Matrix was about getting rid of
technology that’s ruling our lives.
Cyberpunk is more like the detective novels from the 40’s, the Matrix isn’t. They both, however, are anti establishment.
Those who follow the cyberpunk that authors like William Gibson
brought to us in the early 80’s have a grittier point of view.
Cyberpunks move around a bit in society, but cyberpunks tend to scrape
for a living and don’t have the latest fashion.
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