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>>12526935
stop just go to the techwear general faggot

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okay i'll continue to bump this. just copped these. do you guys think they could give off a cyberpunk vibe if i paired them with some black techwear?

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>>12526938
i think this is different enough to warrant its own thread

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>>12526942
>do you guys think they could give off a cyberpunk vibe if i paired them with some black techwear?
>i think this is different enough to warrant its own thread

>>12526946
cyberpunk has roots in fantasy. techwear is all about practicality. sure there's a lot of overlap, but i was hoping we could get conceptual with this thread too. there's a lot to talk about with this stuff

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>>12527023
>artstation.com/artwork/Qo4Z8
yeah i looked at these back when i read neuromancer. pretty cool stuff.

i wish they had illustrated more of the panther moderns aside from just lupus. gibson is always going on about the different subcultures like the panthers, the gothicks, the kasuals, and the jack draculas and i'm curious what the fashion involved with those different groups looks like

>>12526954
Cyberpunk had roots in science fiction and is a dead genre because it's no longer fiction. Cyberpunks don't try to dress like cyberpunks.

Techwear is a real fashion trend, it's what real cyberpunks would wear.

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Black M65s are Kusanagi-approved.

>>12527255
that's not m65

>>12527154
Dead genre? They're making cyberpunk 2077 as an upcoming AAA game and a live adaptation of Ghost in the Shell came out this year, I would call it dead just yet.


I think the main difference between cyberpunk and tech would be the use of repaired or recycled materials, as punk generally is associated with DIY culture. This is a juxtaposition with tech, which is all about efficiency, clean lines and the newest and best stuff.

>>12527271
An game based on a old tabletop, and a remake of a movie from 1995.

There's no new IP coming out, because the things cyberpunk used to fantasize about are basically real now.

And GitS wasn't DIY, it was very clean.

>>12527154
Dead genre, it's not as big as it once was but not dead. And what technology low-life's ideal of freedom of information, right to privacy is more relevant than ever.

>>12527716
Cyberpunk was always high tech low life, if you don't partially look like a scum you're just doing tech.

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Low life high tec
i.e. cheap second hand clothing

>>12527743
Intentionally looking like scum is just posing, anon. That's not punk.

Look like how you want as much within your means as possible. Don't try to look like more of a low life than for are just for the sake of seeming like a lowlife.

That's just gay.

Case didn't try to dress like a broke hacker, he was one. Molly didn't dress like a broke hacker because she wasn't one. Neither does the Major. Or JC Denton.

Dress within your class.

>>12527816
That's kind of my point. It makes no sense to be wearing $800 acronym pants if you're not making bank

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>>12527816
>Case didn't try to dress like a broke hacker, he was one. Molly didn't dress like a broke hacker because she wasn't one
true. but "broke hacker" isn't the only look within the repertoire of cyberpunk.

plus, i am broke. and i might not be a hacker, but i obviously spend a lot of time on the internet. techwear is cool, but like that other anon said, i can't afford that shit.

>>12527023
Pretty nice

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>>12527056
Neuromancer is such a terribly written book. I'll always have a soft spot for sci-fi. A lot of science fiction authors have interesting ideas, but page for page the writing is generally awful (PKD is another offender here). Only examples of well written sci-fi that come to mind are when non-sci-fi authors write a sci-fi novel (e.g. Never Let Me Go, Bleeding Edge).

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>>12528507
>Neuromancer is such a terribly written book
>page for page the writing is generally awful
what do you actually dislike about it? you haven't said anything critical here. i think it's brilliant

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>>12528685
And the last on from Won Kar Wai's 2046

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>>12528687
cool dump anon. thanks for the inspo/bumps

>>12528682
More cyberpunk cuties, please.

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>>12529233
Sure thing bud

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>>12530404
damn that's a good look

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>>12528507
haven't read necromancer, but I agree so much about PKD. its such an unpopular opinion, but I always get funny looks when I bring up what a bad writer he is. he's a genius but its the ideas he comes up with and explore which make his books worth reading.

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>>12530411
Hell yeah it is, I'm not fucking around here. Most of the people who frequent this board have no idea what they're talking about

>>12530415
>when I bring up what a bad writer he is
again, what do you dislike about his writing? like you said, that's a pretty unpopular opinion so i'm curious what you're basing it on. i haven't read any pkd yet, but i'm currently working on finishing "mona lisa overdrive" and after that i'm going to move on to "do androids dream of electric sheep"

i've heard nothing but praise for it

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>>12530444
fuck. w2c hoodie?

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>>12530454
I don't bloody know

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>>12530461
Can anybody actually describe what Cyberpunk even is? I mean the term is pretty wide in description...

>>12530454
http://pressingdog.shop-pro.jp/?pid=108106579
wasn't that hard to find.. just Google a little man.. also it's sold out

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>>12530474
damn that's a bummer. thanks anyways

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>>12527154
Dead? I think it's a continuous question. How does man relate to the negative aspects of technology?

The Private Eye. Free to download at http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/tpeye

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>>12530424
>again
I'm not the same poster, nor do I visit /lit/

but compared to other fiction i've read, PKD is just "dry". he describes events in a very objective and kind of uncreative way. dialogue tends to go "he said, she said, he thought, he said, she thought" etc. he has a limited vocabulary and I feel like he repeats himself a lot. maybe not word-for-word repetition, but sentence patterns and things. just not very much variety in the prose. it feels like somebody who has spent their whole life writing lab reports decided to write a fiction novel.

don't get me wrong, even though the prose is kind of dull I love his books.
I would expect that you've heard nothing but praise because the story, the themes, his insights into technology, culture, society, and humanity really make the reader think. its an enjoyable and fascinating book, but it reads like an extensive essay rather than a novel.

(apologies to rest of thread for going off-topic)

>>12530465
high-tech lowlife seems to be the common consensus. as far as fashion goes, think gothic punk rock with an emphasis on futurism.

here's an excerpt from mona lisa overdrive where gibson describes the way that one of the poor subcultures dresses

>The four Jack Draculas huddled like ravens on the opposite platform. They wore nondescript black raincoats and polished black combat boots laced to the knee. One turned to address another and Kumiko saw that his hair was drawn back into a plaited queue and bound with a small black bow.

I feel like Cav Empt captures a cyberpunk vibe to an extent

>>12530499
awesome. thanks for the input anon. that definitely makes sense. i'll keep an eye out for that kind of stuff when i start the book. i'm still p excited to read it though.

>>12530520
its just personal taste, you might love his style of objective and straightforward prose.
I'm a big poetry fan so I might be biased anyway, its a great book. nothing like the movie, but still fascinating.

>>12530529
>I'm a big poetry fan
you would probably like gibson then. his prose is just a step away from poetry. i would definitely recommend neuromancer

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Buzcut, turtleneck sweater and round glasses usually make a trick for hacker look. Flatlander got it quite well.

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>>12530520
not that poster, but writing style aside I'd recommend A Scanner Darkly, its one of my favorite novels.

I'm currently making a denim battle jacket with a vaguely cyberpunk feel.

>>12530679
pics?

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There's too much to comment on here so i'm not going to quote anything but this is a blanket reply to the whole thread.

No, cyberpunk does not equal techwear, and ideally, yes, cyberpunk would get it's own thread, but unfortunately not a lot of people understand what is so great about cyberpunk, and the little media that does understand makes a thread in fashion, while justifiable, somewhat implausable. Mike Pondsmith (Designer of Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop board game and a guy who "gets" cyberpunk) often refers to a quote by william gibson about how the street finds uses for technology, and I think that's a good way to look at it.

That having been said, William Gibson is a hack. And like another poster said, PKD is also a pretty lousy writer. Fortunately, Cyberpunk takes the good and dumps the bad. The GitS movie from 1995 is awesome and "gets" cyberpunk, but it's just a movie and it's hard to justify the popularity of an entire outdated genre on a single movie and a single book. So when you go looking for more cyberpunk stuff I think you're essentially doomed to leave cyberpunk and go to softer sci-fi at large, i.e. deus-ex, the matrix, ect. which is fine but I wouldn't say they are pure enough. In the 80's and early 90's, punk aesthetic still had a lot to do with cyberpunk, and that remains today, but since punk aesthetic is dead, it's hard to say anything else, i.e. techwear is really truly cyberpunk

>>12530888
punk aesthetic is dead? I see people wearing combat boots, denim jackets, and other punk staples all the time.

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>>12530888
>it's hard to justify the popularity of an entire outdated genre on a single movie and a single book
this is unfortunately true.

but the genre is due for a renaissance imo considering how much technology has evolved since the 90s. the internet alone is such a huge, impactful invention that it should have ushered in a new technological aesthetic.

also i totally disagree that gibson is a hack, but i would love to hear your thoughts about him

>>12530921
It did usher in a new aesthetic tho
Where do you think vaporwave and PC core comes from

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>>12530921
"The street finds its own uses for things"

was the quote i was thinking of, and the one mike pondsmith quotes all the time, and I agree with it being the definition of cyberpunk, because it doesn't say anything about technology or dystopia or aesthetics. Very simple. Neuromancer is the ultimate cyberpunk bible and unbelievably cool.

That having been said, Gibson is not a good author. Neuromancer is confusing. I've never recommended anyone read it outside of them having an interest in cyberpunk. After the sprawl trilogy he disowns his own genre but it's really all that makes him culturally relevant so he often chimes in on things he has no business chiming in on (see his travel articles we wrote for wired) and because at the time Neuromancer seemed prophetic, people listened. I don't mean to sound harsh but the sprawl trilogy is the only cool thing he ever did, and since it was his first series, he is constantly trying to disown it and grow past it, and then stay relevant at the same time by having opinions about technology and shit. If he had any dignity, he'd let his writing speak for itself, but I don't think that would help, as no one is interested in anything he does that isn't about cyberpunk.

>>12531032
>Where do you think vaporwave and PC core comes from
very true. i actually wrote a paper about that in college. i guess i just meant a more widespread phenomenon. hopefully we see a blossoming of that aesthetic as time goes on.

what do you think post-internet/vaporwave fashion would look like? (excluding those shitty arizona tea graphic tees)

>>12531214
post internet/vaporwave?

vaporwave was heavily influenced by dail up and the birth of the internet, so the next logical step would be DSL/high speed. Also, lots of the logos are akin to the logos of the dotcom bubble, so looking forward maybe it'd be stuff resembling or referencing the banking crisis.

>>12531334
>stuff resembling or referencing the banking crisis

I didn't realise I wanted this until now

>>12531334
Banksy feel in fits?

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>>12531744
I don't know, but it'd likely take the feel of consumerism/materialism paired with some despair and hopelessness, not sure how that'd translate into graphics though. Possibly things revolving around foreclosures or abandoned properties?

>>12533135
post new wave punk and new wave cyberpunk here we come

>>12533135
Walking billboards?

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>>12533232
I don't think it would be billboards as much as it would be combinations of extravagance mixed with poverty, like a trucker jacket made from roughed up pinstripe fabric or something like that. The type of clothes that would signal a have falling to a have not.

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>>12531334
Holy shit anon you're onto something

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>>12533494
Okay imagine simple clothing staples with dreary colors, but printed on them are grandiose patterns like beautiful tapestries made from corporate logos that are made to feel like high fashion. Bit all the logos are worn and the whole thing gives off a feeling of homemade sort of thing

>>12528661
>what do you actually dislike about it?
Like I said, I dislike the prose. You can enjoy a books themes, setting, plot, etc. while acknowledging that the writing is subpar. I like Gibson and PKD. Having said that, read a paragraph of Gibson then go read a paragraph of Faulkner or Nabokov (for example) and what I'm saying here will become obvious. In retrospect I'm not sure why I made this post. My main board is /lit/ and it's so polluted with /pol/ migrants that its become unbearable. I guess I just wanted to talk about books. :-)

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>>12530499
Maybe we move in different circles. This is actually a popular opinion of PKD on /lit/ as well as among people I've met IRL who have read him.

>>12530424
"Do Androids Dream" is nothing like Blade Runner. Very cool book tho. All I'm saying is approach it on its own terms and don't expect it to be similar to the film. Ubik is probably my favorite PKD.

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>>12531128
Good posts.

lot's of cool theorizing and shit ITT. i'm excited to see where this goes. have a bump

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>>12533494
>>12533731
Holy shit I love this, anons
what would it be called? Consumer-core? Brand-punk?

>>12531128
I wouldn't say no one cares about his non-cyberpunk works, I'm reading Pattern Recognition at the moment and it's really good.

>>12534360
source on image please

>>12534429
corporate punk or something like that

>>12534520
i found it on /x/. not sure where it's originally from.

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>>12530505
>like ravens

>>12530534
>his prose is just a step away from poetry.
Not him, but are you serious?

>>12534753
the book was written years before that movie.

>>12534763
>Not him, but are you serious?
yeah. i'm sure it isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it's written in a stylized, artistic way that prioritizes creating a mood over conveying blunt meaning. that's why people think it's so confusing

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>>12534646

>>12533731
You should check out vintage Hysteric Glamour. They've done collections playing with the iconography of traditional American advertising before.

>>12534835
dude its workaday popular fiction. have you read Hamlet or Moby Dick?

>use this video for reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99FwxzqWnrk

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>>12530535
Death grips is cyberpunk af

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>>12533780
>Good posts.

Thanks. Sorry to hear about /lit/. I'm more of an anime/film guy, and while /a/ is still fairly good, /tv/ has never been good. It feels good to geek out about cyberpunk here.

>>12534835
>it's written in a stylized, artistic way that prioritizes creating a mood over conveying blunt meaning. that's why people think it's so confusing

I'm sorry but I just can't let go this Gibson praising, and while I understand your intentions, I your reasoning is way off. Gibson's job as a writer was to communicate his intricate vision into words, and if he delivered the content too stylishly, that's not a good thing. That's not poetry. Frankly, if you strip Neuromancer down to what made it good, you're left with the rather blunt descriptions of window dressings. Give it up or I'll be forced to go on at length about how the noir atmosphere is cliched and dated, ect.

So this post isn't incredibly negative I'm gonna recommend some hyper violent cyberpunk anime OVAs. There's tons more but these are just off the top of my head and if you like GitS 1995 check these out.

Angel Cop
Armitage III
Cyber City Oedo 808
Genocyber

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>>12530498
I remember reading this a while back, guess I should finish it.

Honestly, raspberry pi is the most cyberpunk thing you can ever conceive of. You can literally wear a computer, sew that shit into your fucking shirt or something. I mean, look at this shit:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/backmap-haptic/

Blind fuckers can walk around city streets guided by little fucking vibrating nodes in their backpack straps. What the fuck? What other cool shit can some random coder come up with. Put in a little effort and you can have it too. You'll be a fucking Snow Crash gargoyle. Crazy. Fucking crazy.

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>>12526876

is this cyberpunk? seems a bit more than all the rick owens posted itt

>>12536871
>one dude in CCP drips
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>>12538275
You seem like a cool fucking dude. We should hang out

>>12530404
Ugh this shits on every thing in this thread.

The elegance, subtle minimalism and flawless silhouette. All these other fits look like trash next to this perfection

Anyone have a jacket that could pass for this one? A man can dream.

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>>12538285
more like techwear

>>12536178
>if he delivered the content too stylishly, that's not a good thing.
i just don't agree that it was too stylish. i thought he struck a good balance but that's just a matter of opinion i suppose

>the noir atmosphere is cliched and dated, ect.
i haven't read many books in a similar vein so i guess it didn't seem too unoriginal to me.

>I'm gonna recommend some hyper violent cyberpunk anime OVAs
cool thanks. i've never heard of any of those but i love OG GitS so i'll be sure to check them out

>>12538397
Very similar hood style to a Gorka. I imagine that's where he got the inspo from. Just mod it a little with dye, zippers, buckles, cut down the sleeves if you want.

>>12538445
Well damn, I'm checking out some of the Gorkas on ebay, look pretty similar. Might end up having to invest in some powdered dye and get one made up.

>>12530499
>it feels like somebody who has spent their whole life writing lab reports decided to write a fiction novel.

I haven't read the books that you're talking about, but if we're talking science-fiction/cyberpunk that seems like a deliverated stylistic choice, and it might add to the atmosphere; but not everyone has the same taste.
>inb4 reddit spacing; fuck off

>>12538326
If you like what I like then chances are I like you.

But seriously, that's the point of this, right? The individual and his relationship to the progression of technology. At it's heart, it's not about the silhouette, or the colors, it's about what it can fucking DO. In our new world, that's what matters. While techwear is cool and all, it's still just meant to keep the rain off and hold shit in the pockets. While it does have totally cool concepts we should remember for ourselves,
>taped seams
>silicon-wax fabric treatment
>ultra-lightweight fabrics like cuben and tyvek
>RFID lining for everything
...these are ultimately just material aspects considered for practicality and durability. THAT's techwear.

>>12538456
Fuck yes, really glad I could help. I've got one myself, love it to death. You should know: the cotton fabric seems to be treated, so it likely won't take dye very easily (and the synthetic part, the center stripe, obviously won't either). But the cotton fades pretty quickly, and makes these crazy fucking patterns that I think work great for the aesthetic.
I haven't had much recourse to wear the pants in public, but they're incredibly comfortable and great for >>>/out/ shit if you're into that. They're meant to be shells and so are baggy as shit, but now that I think about it, they would probably look fucking crazy if you tailored them to a slim taper. Go ask /diy/ if you're interested, I might later too.

>>12538333
there is literally nothing cyberpunk about this u weeb faggot

>>12538326
Give me a guerillamail link, my man. No way of communicating more cyberpunk than that, except maybe a satphone.

>>12538275
yo
http://www.nemen.it/led/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwCKmbA5sgI

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>>12531128
casual cyberpunk fan checking in, these are interesting thoughts. its sad to see cyberpunk get reduced to black techwear.

at someone higher in the thread saying its a dead genre, i'll disagree too. it's original incarnation, maybe, has just been completely co-opted for its surface level aesthetics. people love neon and rainy nights and the 80s and futuristic-looking clothing and all, sure. the tenets of cyberpunk - the oppressiveness of society in the grasp of mega-corporations, the way that symptoms and symbols of capitalism become aesthetically, conceptually remixed by the lower class - "the street finds its own uses for things [technology, generally]" like the other guy said - is super relevant today. cyberpunk to me has always been defined by observing the symptoms of an "advanced" over-populated, hyper-capitalistic world from the bottom-up perspective of the lower class who live it daily. the irony of these societies considering themselves advanced for their technological progress is why cyberpunk's always been dystopic, and it's absurd to think this is a 'dead' discussion in 2017

imo cyberpunk in 2017 should be thriving, because there's certainly the means for it to, but it needs a new visual aesthetic

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>>12531032
ive been thinking about this a lot, how vaporwave was initially an interesting breakdown of 90s/00s consumerism, kind of shares some vibes with cyberpunk of like, remixing the popular distractions of modern life into something expressive of a more gloomy undercurrent, but less emphasis on how it affects the lowest social class specifically

but all vaporwave stands for now is shitty ironic japanese on a sweatshirt or like some anime girl with a caption saying 'sadboiz 2k17' or whatever

i want a new take on vaporwave and/or cyberpunk. i'm not super into the scene so i don't really know where it stands today but from what i can see i think oneohtrix point never still Gets It really well

>>12538579
You're not wrong about it not being cyberpunk (you are wrong about the weeb faggot part) but my assertion is still solid.

I feel like the people saying "dead genre" are missing the point of the aesthetic here.
Paranoid and subtle rebellion (against whatever happens to fuck with you and your freedom, man), disestablishmentarianism, anti-collectivism—that's what this shit is supposed to represent. There's a reason no two characters that look alike in any work of Cyberpunk. Hyperindividualization is the only way to avoid falling into the sea of hive existence that certain technological trends threaten us with, and so, to reestablish and sustain your most basic identity in the world, you must make use of that same technology. The "hackers" and coders of these fictional universes are absolute wizards, people who can and regularly do shape their realities, according to whim as much as cautious consideration. Figures who represent to us, here in the modern maelstrom of frenetic and teleologically fruitless advancement—forward to whatever end but there is no end so what are we going to do but move forward anyway—that we must innovate or rot. We are creators, innovators, and the only real meaning we can have is in the continual increasing of inertia in the combat against entropy; to stop is to relinquish purpose, to relinquish purpose is to fade. Let those that want the past remain with it, for they can be learned from, but know that to do so is to establish one's own obsolescence. What cannot be improved must be left alone and set in a gilded alcove for all to admire and take inspiration from, maintenance kept on it, but the tread of evolution must march on or else corrupt that same perfection and, worse, divert attention from the ever-multiplying facets of existence. Instead, we must use the tools available to us to create, new and anew, or else be stripped of our humanity—lost in the biomass.

>>12538842
I mean, honestly, look at the individuals of our recent past who really stand out as having made a definitive impact on the world, on the way we live. Inventors and advancers always stand above in history (Ford, Tesla, Edison, von Braun, etc.) and today, it has only become more drastic: Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, and all the rest have managed to pervade our lives in ways and to levels nobody could have ever suspected. Orwell's point in 1984 was that the last real refuge is in thought, but now it's all out there: if somebody wants to know what's in your head, all they have to do is look through your hard drive, your browsing history, your phone, your keystrokes. And that's only after the fact—why not just trace your IP, monitor your GPS/mobile data, access your webcam/microphone, etc. etc. ad infinitum. TOR's run by the FBI, 4chan got bought by an ad-spamming g00k who'll sell your post history even quicker than papa Poole, Amazon knows what you're going to buy before you do, Snapchat has scanned your face so thoroughly that it probably could draw you a picture of your skull and muscular structure if somebody bothered to write the code, and reddit's the front page of the internet.

>>12538844
While the Joe Rogan-fanboy type—who laser-scours every byte of informational fingerprint from every database he can, burns his phone, magnetizes his hard drive, and pawns off his material reality for life in a hovel in Peru, eating guinea pig-onion soup and amateur "farming" a quarter acre of gravel before dying of sepsis from a root-canal abscess at 38—is making an interesting and (likely) unintentional philosophical statement with his commitment, he is ultimately rejecting his facticity: the inescapably concrete details that hedge the limits of identity. We live in a world where technology determines us, and the attempt to run from it is not only scornful of one's brothers, contrary to our natures as adaptive beings, timorous, and weak, but is doomed to wallow in obsolescence and meaninglessness. Instead, the world must be embraced, and only in that closeness can come the means to shape it. The figures initiating real societal development aren't sitting in parks, aren't writing moving monologues, and aren't revenge-killing world leaders: they're using technology to peel bits of the façade away and illuminate the world's hidden workings for the blind masses. Assange, Manning, Snowden, the PirateBay, even (what used to be) Anonymous—love them or hate them, judge them for their mistakes and shortcomings, think whatever you like about them, but their curtain-parting on the paths our Great Machines are dragging us down is essential to the welfare of humanity's soul. Information is everything today, yours and theirs, so it's best to defend the freedom of its access and the privacy of its use. Beat back the encroaching structures of oppression with your shattered chains, get sued, lose, spend 15-to-35 in a comfortable MaxSec playing Dwarf Fortress unless you live in Texas where it's the chair baby and a chariot of gigawatt fire. Compared to a life governed by fake internet points and tinder matches? Yes, I'd rather take a hemlock cocktail.

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>>12538551
Cyberpunk isn't "let's put more pouches on this shit, that's cool." Cyberpunk is a motherfucking LCD screen on a t-shirt, with screensavers for your every mood.
>batteries in belt packs with LED charge displays wired to your wrist
>mirrored shatter-proof sunglasses/goggles with shit like pic related strapped on and preferably jailbroken to show whatever the fuck you want
>earbuds that are audio-enhancing, noise-cancelling above a certain decibel, and hooked to your phone and central PC
>NVDs, obviously, if you can afford them
>range finders in forward-facing shoulder/forearm pouches so you can point at something and know how far away it is
>every piece of tech able to be deconstructed/miniaturized done so, and attached through various means to various articles of clothing
>wires preferred over Bluetooth, but do what you want
>directional mics on your lapels
>fiberoptic eyelashes if you're a chick or enjoy looking feminine I guess
>penlights everywhere wired to a central panel with varied intensity and strobe options
>quality gas content monitor on your chest and a HEPA-rated gas mask (cartridges sealed and in pockets/bag) hanging around your neck
>throat-mic for windy days, hooked to a complex, self-designed voice command system only you know how to work
>heavy-gauge keychain with bluetooth-activated radio pulse and GPS in case that shit gets pinched by cyborg eses or junkies or something, all inside a lockable double-lined RFID case on your waist, abdomen or chest
>keychain contains: minimized keys, access cards, lighter, glue tube, tritium dongle (radioactive life), USB with vital info, library card
>small digitizer sketchpads on your thigh and inner forearm so you can jot silent observations on people's habits, chart microchip transport routes, or doodle some technical specs for your next self-modification

This is too much fun

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>>12539000
>kill switch and code phrase that hard-wipes all the data on you
>meticulously designed face-paint that defies facial recognition software—a new pattern every application so they can't fucking track you, dude
>satphone on a sling
>multiple external SDDs in padded pouches all along the inside of your jacket
>like 5 fucking watches or something sewn/stapled/bolted/expoxied at different points to a wrist-mount: one automatic diving watch, one quartz, three digital with every function from calculator to altimeter, just no GPS because shit man they can track you like that (last three can be replaced by system with holo read-out if you want, but both would be better)
>plexiglass bulbs on jacket sleeve so you can see your watch faces and random read-outs
>biofeedback monitors in your fire-proof, full-body long johns, baby
>worn sponsor patches/silk-screens everywhere because Jesus where are you going to get the money for all this
>custom-programmed CB radio on belt with whip antenna running up back
>step-counters and pressure sensors wired to your soles (which hopefully have traction enough for an oil slick, or are springblades because those look nuts and I guess help you jump, probably)
>nomex flight gloves custom patched with Kevlar along wear-points, silver thread sewn through fingertips to allow touchscreen usage, and an electric lighter with nodes between your middle and pointer fingers so you can give somebody the forks as you light a clove or menthol or whatever your poison
>speakers, wherever you want
>positionable tube running up a neck gaiter, either to your mouth from a vaporizer strapped to your chest, or your nose from a can of pure O2 on your lower back
>hot-plate on your aerogel-padded inner calf so when you sit in full lotus on the top of the mid-construction skyscraper you just scaled you can brew tea you had to import from Myanmar because some guy on a forum you frequent told you it was the shit

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>>12539004
>a fucking airbag somewhere for some reason
>motorized heelys

What ever the fuck you want, man, whatever the fuck you need. Whatever lies within the limits of technology, make it happen. Gotta go nuts, especially since this doesn't even address the creative possibilities with a couple raspberry pis set up.

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>>12539015
This was fun. This aesthetic is fun.

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>>12538755
Fucking incredible, man, damn. Had no idea.

Also this shit from their site

>>12538848
>>12538844
>>12538842
christo iesu

>>12531128
>Gibson is not a good author
while i wouldn't call him a great author, i'd certainly throw him in the good category. the ideas he introduced took off in a way that made them representative of an entire genre of the time. He's also a troll and perhaps doesn't fully understand (or care to understand) the wide array of interpretations his writing has opened up

here's an interesting example: My friend once wrote an essay about how people in and around the Art World have seemingly misinterpreted the word 'atemporality' which William Gibson coined (or at least that's who these people believe themselves to be referencing). Some curators used it to basically say 'now (late 90s?) is the time we can put art from any time period next to each other and appraise them in the same context', others said 'the only true avant-garde things speak to 20 years in the future'. When interviewed about it, Gibson basically said 'yeah that's not what it means at all' but also didn't really seem to want to correct it.

I think, even if the writing itself isn't goat, it counts for something that people do wild things with his words/ideas and he doesn't seem to mind.

>>12539126
yeah, those dyed acronym parkas were made in collab with nemen

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>>12539793
>copped raf green, the rarest cw

feels fucking good man

Feel very good about the dotcom bubble, late capitalism vibe some of the anons were throwing around here, and there's obviously room for tech miniaturization to work its way in.

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>>12539806
gonna dump some things that i feel aren't quite what this thread is looking for, but are perhaps related.

also to the dude who recommended genocyber, you have alright taste.

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Cyberpunk is the new Steampunk.
Prove me wrong.

love cyberpunk
and i love fashion
but im not rich/brave enough to try to mix them

i do unironically spend time surfing the web ontop of rooftops though so i feel like that makes up for it

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>>12538842
>>12538844
>>12538848
relax, dude. cyberpunk is about being cool, and with cameras everywhere right now everyone is trying to be cool all the time. it's a commodity lifestyle.

>>12539000
>>12539004
>>12539015
this is an aesthetic but i'd be hard pressed to call it cyberpunk. we're kind of past the need for any of this stuff and it has more to do with futurism imo.

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>>12539847
I understand your sentiment but cyberpunk and steampunk are both just subgenres of science fiction that are for the most part incredibly shitty. You could perhaps argue that since 90's hacker culture got a lot of it's influence from cyberpunk that somehow makes it a better genre, but the truth lies closer that cyberpunk was always as stupid as steampunk. Anyone who thinks they have a superior taste in shitty genre fiction proves the point.

>>12539871
gonna need some sauce here

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>>12538797
>but from what i can see i think oneohtrix point never still Gets It really well
absolutely. it's actually hilarious how ahead of the game oneohtrix is. he is definitely one of the spearheads of a new incarnation of the futurist movement. i can't wait for new stuff from him

>>12539847
Cyberpunk can be functional.

Steampunk is never functional.

Dude the 80's? epic.

>>12540323
see
>>12526876

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>>12527279
>1990's gadgets
>cyberpunk

>>12539000
>>12539004
i enjoyed these posts anon

>>12539964
sexycyborg

>>12538565
I can get down on the idea of a slim taper fit on that jacket. I've been looking for a /cyb/ kinda vibe with a jacket and haven't found one that isn't crazy expensive or give off crazy 'tism vibes. This might end up being my solution. Thank again anon, glad to hear that you like yours as much as you do. Definitely makes me wanna buy one myself.

>>12541807
wait...wtf...WHY?

>>12542863
a e s t h e t i c

>>12528507
jump off a bridge

>>12534763
>>12535307
>>12536178
imho Gibson's prose is really unique and elaborate
you should read his short stories
that's where he really shines

>>12530888
no u r a hack