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it seems as if cyberpunk as a genre has more-or-less ran its course, I think this is mostly in part because of aspirations and ambitions which never came to be and act in some sort of hauntological manner. I feel as if, however, cyberpunk is still particularly telling of our times, especially with the rise of techno-corporatism (facebook, meta, amazon, etc) that seem to function both with and against the fundamentals of capitalism. look at this cyberpunk quote all the way back from 1991:

The future has imploded onto the present. There was no nuclear Armageddon. There's too much real estate to lose. The new battle-field is people's minds… The megacorps are the new governments… The U.S. is a big bully with lackluster economic power… The world
is splintering into a trillion subcultures and designer cults with their own language, codes
and lifestyles… Computer-generated info-domains are the next frontiers… There is better living through chemistry… Small groups or individual 'console cowboys' can wield
tremendous power over governments, corporations etc… The coalescence of a computer 'culture' is expressed in self-aware computer music, art, virtual communities, and a hacker/street tech subculture… the computer nerd image is passe, and people are not ashamed anymore about the role the computer has in this subculture. The computer is a cool tool, a friend, important human augmentation… We're becoming cyborgs. Our tech is getting smaller, closer to us, and it will soon merge with us.

is this not telling of our times? what "replaced" cyberpunk?

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