So I was strolling through the brassy meadows of our steampunk friends just now, and I couldn't help but feel a shred of jealousy over their rather image-driven sub-culture. The gears, the silly goggles, the ye olde dress... usually I'm the first to decry, 'cyberpunk has Googles not goggles!' but tonight, I feel a little more relaxed. Perhaps in my old age I am weakening, giving in to the foolish masses. Or perhaps I am resigned to the fact that cyberpunk will be foist upon us when the GitS and Neuromancer films come out. So let's weather it, stick our tongues firmly in cheek and have a 'cyberpunk fashion' thread.

I for one don't hold for a unified cyberpunk fashion. I always advocate that real 'cyberpunks' if there are such things are probably overweight middle-aged men with (KFC, not motor oil) grease-stained t-shirts, hawaiian shorts and an overabundance of facial hair. Yet, there are elements of the subculture which might well be absorbed into popular fashion at some point, so I might as well be resigned to the idea of mirrorshades, bondage trousers and other silly sorts of things making a reappearance in the near future. Now, living with a girl who dresses in a distinctly cybergoth fashion (something I have often derided and now feel a little bad about), I don't see any real links to a 'cyberpunk' fashion. The plastic hair, the corsets. It's not cyberpunk. Neon is not cyber; it's rave influenced, fetish influenced. All well and good in its own corner, but not cyberpunk.
Perhaps what we often overlook is the 'punk' aspect. Given that when Gibson was writing, he took influence from the punk culture, particularly the violent and anarchic hardcore scene which was at the time in its infancy, might we not perceive that as a majorly cyberpunk style - just add some mirrorshades.
I'm not sure I really believe this, of course, I'm just throwing out some crap for you lot to discuss. I'm gonna bet this thread becomes full of latex-clad fetish model bullshit though.

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I'm Afraid to Start a New Thread Anonymous 13/05/17(Fri)20:52 No. 5934 File 136882393749.jpg - (78.19KB , 796x599 , 796px-Vostok_spacecraft.jpg ) just a suggestion, of course, but maybe the mod could post a note on this sticky at least once-a-month to let us fans of megachan know that s/he's not rotting in the bathtub with fungi sprouting all over the place... hmmm???

>>	Dra!TvNZI.MfJE 13/05/17(Fri)23:31 No. 5936 >>5934 Why this sticky, when you're talking about something completely non /cy/ and non fashion related? Dev would be the place for that.

Ok I know that /cy/ and CyberGothic are to different pairs of shoes, the have a little bit in common, but most CyberGoths just follow a trend, not knowing of its roots.

I always try to differ from the average club folks these days, I don't like all those colors they are using, but I still like the clubs, most of the people and of course the music. I want to make my outfit more /cy/ then CyberGoth, but I am not creative, how would you go on about it any good ideas or suggestions ? Btw. pic shows me in my current outfit, I am in now way happy with it, I just love my self made metal plate vest.

First up, long time no post ( ；´Д｀) Busy year, yadda, yadda... So here's a topic that will hopefully tickle you.

At the moment I'm giving Project Itoh's Harmony a re-read. I've mentioned it on this board before, but this time around I think I've got more of a handle on it. To cut to the quick, it's essentially a literalist interpretation of Foucault's theories on biopolitics; that is, the management of populations through medical rather than political exercise of power, with the intent that a hygienic (mentally as well as physically) populace is a stable, and manageable populace.
In Itoh's post-cyberpunk novel Harmony, that means that most of the world is run by post-governmental 'admedistrations' that inject the program WatchMe into every adult body, which monitors health, controls cancer cells, etc. On the social side of things, a nuclear conflict has made children a commodity, such that the individual body is a communal object, to be maintained at peak condition or the person faces social ostracisation. As a result, people are increasingly limited in body shape, and therapy is a primary punitive measure. The people living under admedistrative rule are relentlessly positive and (for lack of a better term) politically correct. Smoking, drinking, even caffeine are banned.

Now, this is a science fiction novel, but obviously there is Foucault's theory first proposed in 1976, and the fact that hard technology is or has caught up with it; look at the Jawbone UP, or the painfully naive extract from Eric Schmidt's book published in the Guardian recently (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/20/eric-schmidt-cohen-book-extract). Observation of the body - whether at a personal or a networked level - is increasing in fluency and frequency, and the impact that has for the individual is remarkable. Nevermind drones, etc, when your job security and insurance payments could change based on data mind from your own body. When a government or administrating body can level control over a populace based on health - the flip side of welfare. When we think of cyberpunk future we think of drug addled hackers on the edge of sani

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Story link: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/45180/google-augmented-reality-glasses-project-glass

Sceptical as I remain about VR goggles replacing screens for a full-immersion environment, this caught my eye as something that very likely will catch on if/when it's made commercially available. Using smartphones as an intermediary for augmented reality always seemed to me very clumsy and awkward, while this is quite elegant and not altogether ugly looking or - more importantly - distracting/debilitating. I can see uses for such thing in combat, but outside of it; courtrooms, business meetings, espionage, especially if broadcast or recording functions were available. I think, also, that this is more likely to catch on than implanted devices (the post/cyberpunk split.)

Thoughts?

Wow, so much cyberpunkines crawling through the media at the moment, and the board is dead.

If I had more time I would love to contribute more, but studying Nanotech is no joke. Whats up with the rest ?

Dirty rigs.
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>>	Anonymous 13/04/26(Fri)03:03 No. 5910 >>5505 There's more of this one around. I recall a lot of the magazines were EQ or something similar positioned for higher class people and it was a humorous juxtaposition.

Greetings, /CY/
What a lovely little site you have here.

I thought I'd throw out a request for anyone to share the bizarre corners of the wired you have discovered in you travels. Anything from sites that have no clear purpose, to small cliques of interesting people (Such as Megachan).
I'll start with some of my favorites:

Serial Experiments Lain pseudo chatroom thing.
http://www.mebious.mobi/menu/

Randomly generating collection of fascinating and colorful images
http://yyyyyyy.info/

Absurd conspiracy theory video site
http://www.planetxtube.com/

Restart cyberpunk music thread?
I'll start.
Neuroticfish - Waste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbt3PjGhX1k

@m_kopas on twitter said,

> Surprise: cyberpunk is basically already here and you probably didn't realize it because you're on the side of the corporation

i realize how true this is, as stare at the logo of a multinational banking and financial services organization, waiting for the citrix session to bring up. johnny mnemonic was such a loser, but that's basically who i grew up to be :o "I've had it with them, I've had it with you, I've had it with ALL THIS - *I want ROOM SERVICE*!"

http://www.decentralizeddanceparty.com/faq/whatisaddp/

These people all get boomboxes, set them to a set frequency and some people pump out some music from a set frequency everyone sets up and they all party at a random location. It raminds me of the critical mass concept, only with partying.

pic unrelated