Everything is Steampunk now

[akaihyo]

While the other forms of punk seem to be fading (though there is an interesting history of cyberpunk here), steampunk with its Victorian look and clockwork mad science is becoming increasingly popular. Not that I object.

The Sound of Steampunk featuring a discussion of the Steampunk aesthetic in music with links to several groups including Abney Park, go and listen to their Airship Pirates track right now!

For the visual side of things, there is the Brass Goggles site with links to all sorts of steampunkish things.

Comments

[dqg-neal.livejournal.com]

I've been on a big steampunk kick lately. Most of my short story ideas lately have involved it in some form.


I've heard about Abney park but I haven't gotten around to listening to the music, how is it?

[akaihyo.livejournal.com]

What I have heard, I like.

[forvrin.livejournal.com]

your link on the history of cyberpunk is borked. :|

[akaihyo.livejournal.com]

Fixed. Thanks.

[laughingfang.livejournal.com]

Like I've said many a time, cyberpunk is being supplanted by things like Steampunk, Ribopunk, Cypherpunk, Post-Modernism, Post-Post-Modernism, and the General State of Weird.

[akaihyo.livejournal.com]

Streampunk is self-consciously retro through. As it has developed it is almost too nostalgic to be properly punk at all. Which is part of what makes it so fascinating.

True, soft tech, bio and gene, seem to be the dominant trends for the future rather than the hard tech of the original cyberpunk vision.

Post-modernism needs to have a stake driven through its bleak, pointless heart.

Weird can be good, it is certainly different.

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

I admit that the whole Steampunk trend puzzles me. I honestly don't see what all the fuss is. But the music sounded good.

[akaihyo.livejournal.com]

Gears! Brass! Steam! Goggles! Airships!

But, yes, those may not appeal to you. But I like the look and I adore zeppelins . . .

[dqg-neal.livejournal.com]

From an engineering and technical point I think steampunk is awesome. of course there are two different conflicting themes going on in the movement.

I appreciate the opulant look of things, because I hate that our technology is advancing at such a rate that they rarely fix bugs in products, because the next version has to be out before they fix the version before it.

I want to live a life where my technology isn't encased in plastic. I want the nice quality woods and metals. (on of these days I'll go and wire up a brass and real wood keyboard, and recase all my computer components.)