/fa/ - Fashion

>>14951987
>How does cyberpunk adapt to a world where the big tech dystopia is far more streamlined, minimalist, and overtly friendly?

IMO by doubling down on its rough-hewn and antagonistic ethos. Canonical cyberpunk works, to me, were never really so much about the dystopia/n overlords but about the striving and resistances of people trying to live their lives in and against that world. Like all of us are now.

"Minimalist" is complicated... I don't think or feel any resonance with either "minimalist" or "maximalist" as an ethos or spectrum or whatever. What I desire, as a general aesthetic thing, is orthogonal to that – it's spare and elegant but intricate.

The supposedly minimalist aesthetic right now – it really isn't. It's like big, grand scale, throw bucks at it flatness and plainness, or low budget imitations of that.

Apropos me happening to have it open in another tab, I think this Alchemy Equipment daypack is a good example of forward looking, human design... at first blush you might lump it in with minimalism but it really isn't. The pattern is more complex, sculptural and anatomic, than most; it doesn't strip the stretch side pockets or replace them with self fabric pockets like most urban bags do; and, crucially, the fabric is a waxed polyester that'll patina up real nicely.

Aesthetics truthful to cyberpunk in 2020 aren't going to look like classic cyberpunk because tech and culture has changed so much since the '80s... but we can still hold to the ethos, and something like that does it a lot more for me than something like say an Arc'teryx Blade or Nomin (the tech pinnacle of mainstream corporate chic) or all the PALS'd up tacticool bullshit (that people want to pretend is antagonistic to it but you'll probably see more of walking into a Google building than the first). (And ofc most tech workers don't have much taste, so you're probably mostly going to see random Herschel/Everlane/whatever the fuck Wirecutter recommends bullshit.)

>>14951987
>How does cyberpunk adapt to a world where the big tech dystopia is far more streamlined, minimalist, and overtly friendly?

IMO by doubling down on its rough-hewn and antagonistic ethos. Canonical cyberpunk works, to me, were never really so much about the dystopia/n overlords but about the striving and resistances of people trying to live their lives in and against that world. Like all of us are now.

"Minimalist" is complicated... I don't think or feel any resonance with either "minimalist" or "maximalist" as an ethos or spectrum or whatever. What I desire, as a general aesthetic thing, is orthogonal to that – it's spare and elegant but intricate.

The supposedly minimalist aesthetic right now – it really isn't. It's like big, grand scale, throw bucks at it flatness and plainness, or low budget imitations of that.

Apropos me happening to have it open in another tab, I think this Alchemy Equipment daypack is a good example of forward looking, human design... at first blush you might lump it in with minimalism but it really isn't. The pattern is more complex, sculptural and anatomic, than most; it doesn't strip the stretch side pockets or replace them with self fabric pockets like most urban bags do; and, crucially, the fabric is a waxed polyester that'll patina up real nicely.

Aesthetics truthful to cyberpunk in 2020 aren't going to look like classic cyberpunk because tech and culture has changed so much since the '80s... but we can still hold to the ethos, and something like that does it a lot more for me than something like say an Arc'teryx Blade or Nomin (the tech pinnacle of mainstream corporate chic) or all the PALS'd up tacticool bullshit (that people want to pretend is antagonistic to it but you'll probably see more of walking into a Google building than the first). (And ofc most tech workers don't have much taste, so you're probably just going to see random Herschel/Everlane/whatever the fuck Wirecutter recommends bullshit.)