/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3087972]

Is cyberpunk still relevant or is it just yet another genre for selling books/movies to geeky young adults like you'd sell Fifty Shades of Grey to soccer moms?

[Anonymous No.3087981]

>>3087972
I'd say that cyberpunk is more relevant than ever.

[Anonymous No.3087983]

Cyberpunk existed for about five years and hasn't been relevant or commercial ever since.

[Anonymous No.3087984]

>>3087972
I'd say it's relevant, but not when it's called Cyberpunk.

[Anonymous No.3087985]

When did it become a genre?

[Anonymous No.3087989]

We all live in cyberpunk already, so no, let's get rid of Gibson

[Anonymous No.3088000]

>>3087989

yeah forgot about the fact that we can experience virtual reality prostitutes

when we're there we'll call it quits

[Anonymous No.3088011]

>>3087985
When that Wild Wild West film came out, with Woll Smoth.

[Anonymous No.3088042]

>>3087983
>Cyberpunk existed for about five years and hasn't been relevant or commercial ever since.

True, but film and books that have a shifting standard of a near-future aesthetic tend to be lumped in to a "cyberpunk" category.

The window of thoughtful critique though fiction has largely passed, but some tropes are pushed out still.

[Anonymous No.3088058]

>>3088011
>with Woll Smoth.

[Anonymous No.3088065]

>>3088011
i believe you talkin bout stoompunk, nigra

[Anonymous No.3088091]

>>3087972
For me it remains relevant as useful perspective towards modern technology, but above all as an aesthetic.

[Anonymous No.3088478]

>>3088058
Hollo, Woll Smoth. Mo Nom os Brod Pott.

[Anonymous No.3088489]

>>3088478
Wo moot ogoon, Brod Pott.