I’ve been writing lately about how cyberpunk at 40 is becoming quaint and anachronistic but that most don’t see it because that’s the narrative of the future that most appeals. (There’s even a big computer […]
Tag: retrofuture
Cyberpunk as Retrofuturism
Cyberpunk and its offshoots (biopunk, solarpunk, etc.) are still our significant cultural vision of the future. And yet, it hasn’t aged particularly well. This is the vid-phone from Blade Runner (1980), which was supposed to […]
Killer Robots
The fear of robots has been there from the beginning — where I’m including creations like Frankenstein. At a mythological level, robots are our dark reflection. (They often look like us.) They instantiate our creeping […]
(Art) The Anti-gravity Dieselpunk of Alejandro Burdisio
Retrofuturism is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. Characterized by a blend of old-fashioned “retro styles” with futuristic technology, retrofuturism explores the […]
(Art) The Dieselpunk Worlds of Vadim Voitekhovitch
Russian/German artist Vadim Voitekhovitch paints an alternate vision of the late 19th & early 20th centuries that I wish was real. Some of his machinery looks almost organic, as if lifted from the world of […]
