Comments on: Cyberpunk Scene: A “Disaster Aesthetic” — Week Three. Assignment Three – P2PU – Brian Williams … brian.williams@gmail.com http://blogs.p2pu.org/cyberpunk/2009/09/28/cyberpunk-scene-a-%e2%80%9cdisaster-aesthetic%e2%80%9d-week-three-assignment-three-%e2%80%93-p2pu-%e2%80%93-brian-williams-%e2%80%a6-brian-williamsgmail-com/ Just another P2PU Blogs weblog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rebeccakahn http://blogs.p2pu.org/cyberpunk/2009/09/28/cyberpunk-scene-a-%e2%80%9cdisaster-aesthetic%e2%80%9d-week-three-assignment-three-%e2%80%93-p2pu-%e2%80%93-brian-williams-%e2%80%a6-brian-williamsgmail-com/comment-page-1/#comment-83 rebeccakahn Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:57:13 +0000 http://blogs.p2pu.org/cyberpunk/?p=224#comment-83 "...the cyberpunk’s world view is one of adaptation and survival and acceptance …" I really like this idea, and I think it subverts one of the most alarming realities of modern life - the manipulation of the environment. We've manipulated and used out setting to suit ourselves for so long, but in cyberpunk novels/films, it's like nature (however broken and bastardized it is) has turned on us, and people are forced to adapt to their settings instead. “…the cyberpunk’s world view is one of adaptation and survival and acceptance …” I really like this idea, and I think it subverts one of the most alarming realities of modern life – the manipulation of the environment. We’ve manipulated and used out setting to suit ourselves for so long, but in cyberpunk novels/films, it’s like nature (however broken and bastardized it is) has turned on us, and people are forced to adapt to their settings instead.

]]> By: James Stephenson http://blogs.p2pu.org/cyberpunk/2009/09/28/cyberpunk-scene-a-%e2%80%9cdisaster-aesthetic%e2%80%9d-week-three-assignment-three-%e2%80%93-p2pu-%e2%80%93-brian-williams-%e2%80%a6-brian-williamsgmail-com/comment-page-1/#comment-80 James Stephenson Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:48:08 +0000 http://blogs.p2pu.org/cyberpunk/?p=224#comment-80 Wow, excellent essay! I really enjoyed your point of view. I, unlike you, do not live in a city. In fact. My current residence is as far as you can get from in the city. It is in a National Forest. I used to dwell in the City (DC), but it has been several years and the experience of it has slowly gone to the back of my mind. I forget that not everyone can turn out there lights and hear nothing at all. Or that not everyone has to drive for 45 minutes to get to a bookstore. It is interesting to me that pretty much all Cyberpunk is set in the city. I think it would be interesting to see what a Cyberpunk story set in a more rural environ would be like. Maybe I'll have to try and write something like that. Wow, excellent essay! I really enjoyed your point of view. I, unlike you, do not live in a city. In fact. My current residence is as far as you can get from in the city. It is in a National Forest. I used to dwell in the City (DC), but it has been several years and the experience of it has slowly gone to the back of my mind. I forget that not everyone can turn out there lights and hear nothing at all. Or that not everyone has to drive for 45 minutes to get to a bookstore. It is interesting to me that pretty much all Cyberpunk is set in the city. I think it would be interesting to see what a Cyberpunk story set in a more rural environ would be like. Maybe I’ll have to try and write something like that.

]]> By: Nadeem Shabir http://blogs.p2pu.org/cyberpunk/2009/09/28/cyberpunk-scene-a-%e2%80%9cdisaster-aesthetic%e2%80%9d-week-three-assignment-three-%e2%80%93-p2pu-%e2%80%93-brian-williams-%e2%80%a6-brian-williamsgmail-com/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Nadeem Shabir Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:43:47 +0000 http://blogs.p2pu.org/cyberpunk/?p=224#comment-75 "Yet unlike many traditional science fiction narratives, the cyberpunk’s world view is one of adaptation and survival and acceptance ... In traffic, in apartments, in laundromats, our contemporary American cyberpunk culture thrives like a slightly watered down blade runner. For city dwellers, there is something to the cyberpunk setting that touches our world view" I certainly concur with that, and I think that's why it is so immersive, we can see ourselves in that world, we can see how we would have to adopt as the protagonists we read about have had to. It's easy to empathise with, and easy to visualise because the world around is often echoing the words on the page. That's a very thoughtful piece Brian, thank you. “Yet unlike many traditional science fiction narratives, the cyberpunk’s world view is one of adaptation and survival and acceptance … In traffic, in apartments, in laundromats, our contemporary American cyberpunk culture thrives like a slightly watered down blade runner. For city dwellers, there is something to the cyberpunk setting that touches our world view”

I certainly concur with that, and I think that’s why it is so immersive, we can see ourselves in that world, we can see how we would have to adopt as the protagonists we read about have had to. It’s easy to empathise with, and easy to visualise because the world around is often echoing the words on the page.

That’s a very thoughtful piece Brian, thank you.

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