cyberpunk always was
Ottobre 22, 2007
It is just in the meeting of machine and man that
the usual questions come finally in the open space
manifest themselves.
Like america, it was there already before we could give it a name,
and like america’s discovery is defined the discovery of a country,
so the name cyberpunk defines a genre,
but both are processes.
It happens, it soothes fashion, fits style,
but the word is just too narrow, as it only implies interaction between human and metal through electricity.
whilst here I would like to explore how this interaction can modify us, and what stemmed out of it so fascinating, awing, disturbing, true. It is not a word defining a genre to me, it is a password to the perception of things to be as they will be, and already potentially are.
a world where the meaning of human is the more intense, the more it has been stripped bare, merged, twisted, made useless, etc etc.
I can’t escape yet philosophy and critical-writing, I need to define this idea.
so far. whoever but few will drop here and understand where i am aiming at and leave a few hints?