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Variations on a Name: The -Punks of Our Times
- failrate 8y agoKnuppunk: hardcore palindrome enthusiasts
- inflatableDodo 8y agoJust thought of togapunk, and found it has a single mention on instagram and another single one on twitter by different people 8 years apart. https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/togapunk/ https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/togapunk/ https://twitter.com/hashtag/togapunk https://twitter.com/hashtag/togapunk edit - am now wondering about a crack team of ancient greek philosophers using resonant pendulums to try and hack an airgapped ankythera mechanism.
- shackenberg 8y agoAlso check out this neat illustrated "timeline" of "-punks". https://imgur.com/gallery/WkIU2 https://imgur.com/gallery/WkIU2 Only the end I would change. First I would put Cyberpunk into the 1990-2000 years. And then I would add another category for all movies that have this "bright", "plastic" and "clean" look like GATTACA, 2001, Minority Report or Oblivion. And then add another category for all the rough and dirty movies like District nine or Edge of tomorrow that seem to be fashionable now. But I don't have good names for these yet. What do you think?
- mxuribe 8y agoFirst of all, that is a great "timeline" of the "-punks"! To your question about a name for the District 9, etc. era, I'm thinking something depressive, sort of "not looking forward to what the present/near future holds"...but can't think of anything better than: nihilpunk or nilpunk. Good question though!
- blotter_paper 8y agoDystopunk?
- ska 8y agoFirst I would put Cyberpunk into the 1990-2000 years. I don't see how this works, most of the core Cyberpunk books were at least technologically well past even current level, let alone 2000ish. What is your thinking for 1990-2000 ?
- jhbadger 8y agoWell most of them had a sort of "sideways" technology, better in some ways but worse in others (not unlike how a lot of 1950s SF had people on starships fiddling with slide rules). Cyberpunk generally posited human-level AI and near-realistic VR, but generally didn't feature mobile phones (payphones were common) and presumably analog TV ("The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel" implying analog static).
- saltcured 8y agoThat figure seems a bit confused. Up until the final categories, it seems more like it is attempting to delineate time periods sourcing that dominant flavor of scifi, not the time period postulated in its fiction. It lists the contemporary topics influencing that fiction. But, it then goes wrong as it wavers and transitions into future time periods. Sticking to the writers' eras, it is the listed "cassette futurism" period that is really cyberpunk. That's where it was born, influenced by those technologies, dystopian ideas, and noir aesthetics. By the 90s, we were into post-cyberpunk works like Snowcrash, reacting with parody and snarky absurdity.
- veritas_veritad 8y agoTaking minor offense that solarpunk is considered an invented fiction. Permies have been lusting after it as a reality for at least 10 years haha
- mieseratte 8y agoAww, it left off my favorite "-punk" of all: trustpunks. Trust-fund children who, for whatever reason, find the need to pretend to be poor punks.
- inflatableDodo 8y agoAnarchosyndicalism's history does lead to Prince Kropotkin, who was in some ways the very model of a trustafarian uppercrusty.
- haxterstockman 8y agoNext time someone says "just let people enjoy things" I'm going to point them to this article and ask them if this is what they really want for this world
- mcphage 8y agoWhat do you mean by this?
- deertick1 8y agoI think he means that this is really, really stupid.
- inflatableDodo 8y agoI think this is hardly the depths of the rabbithole of stupidity that humans are capable of. For instance, how can we combine these various -punk genres into professional wrestling?
- inflatableDodo 8y agoI see you are into misanthropunk.
- mcphage 8y agoI’m a fan of Seusspunk... the kind of semi-organic machines with everything operated by robot hands wearing white gloves.
- riffraff 8y agoas someone whose kids love The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse I will henceforth identify them as seusspunk enthusiasts.
- spacegod 8y agoPlasticpunk Featherpunk Postpunk
- nine00001 8y agoHey! You leave Post-Punk out of this. I love IDLES and Joy Division!
- nine00001 8y agoThe author claims they are about the ethos of "Punk" but they are just letting people they don't want to have the word just have the word. I don't understand why people just roll over and let people have things. It's just like the Nazis and the OK hand sign right now. Instead of saying "Some nazis use it, so its problematic", use it every day and make it have a different connotation. Take it back. Don't just roll over and let someone have something. If you were really punk, you wouldn't have to just take your ball, go off, and make your own "coconutpunk" or "bamboo punk". You should just call your shit steampunk, and if someone tells you that isn't steampunk, tell them they are being a fake punk, and there isn't one defining archetype in any "punk" genre.