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- From: merlin@freeside.com (Merlin the Idiot Magi)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Slipstream PoMo and Second Generation Cyberpunk
- Message-ID: <NagmwB5w165w@freeside.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 18:52:46 CST
- References: <1992Dec30.184738.608@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (obi-wan kenobi) writes:
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- [Nice but rather jargon-filled summary of Cyberpunk to date snipped]
- > Summary: Caller ID is wank. Let's change the prevailing gestalt of
- > conversation to a more subjective philosophical examination of the new
- > hyperreal.
- >
- > Rave on and rant off.
- >
- > --
- >
- > ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu FutureCulture: In/f0rmation
- > ahawks@mindvox.phantom.com future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu
- >
-
- You're right, Caller ID _is_ wank. I've been hiding out in
- Alt.Cpunk.Tech for months now because of stuff like that.
- The real question is, where do we go from here? Looking back ( as
- everyone seems to be doing in the 90's), Punk left it's mark on a whole
- generation of people and then almost disappeared from the planet.
- Cyberpunk is growing and maturing, but to what end? Where do we take it
- from here? We have this wonderful new toy with which we can wreak sever
- havoc, benificail or otherwise, on society. Do we dare use it? Do we
- really want the cliched Teeny-bopper swaying around to Industial-Country
- music and swooning at the sight of Liquid Crystal ( A'la the Fashion bit
- in M2K's newest issue...) Bodicies? It could be fun, but do we really
- want to go to all of the trouble?
- There is another posibilty in sight, we, as cyberpunks, could go the
- way of the SCA and certain Secret societies, satying in the background
- and using subtle pressure to keep humanity away from the `dark future',
- and to have really neat-o techie toys made for us.
- I'm not biased either way, but both do sound interesting.
- /// & ///
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- I told the priest/Don't count on any second comming/God got his ass
- Kicked/the last time he came down slumming/He had the balls to come/the
- gall to die/and forgive us/No, I don't wonder why/I wonder what he'ld
- thought it'ld get us. --- Concrete Blond, Tommorow Wendy
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