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A genre of science fiction and a lawless subculture in an oppressive society dominated by computer technology and big corporations.


What is cyberpunk?

A genre of science fiction and a lawless subculture in an oppressive society dominated by computer technology and big corporations.


Guidelines

  • NO music. Post instead to /r/Cyberpunk_music

  • NO photographs of modern cities

  • Neon and/or pink and purple filters does NOT make something Cyberpunk

  • NO posting artwork or photos of scantily clad women. Try r/cyberbooty instead

  • NO posts about, or relating to the video game Cyberpunk 2077

  • NO posting content that has 'Cyberpunk Vibes'. If the post only has vibes than it probably is not cyberpunk

  • Please credit the artist. Posted artwork should include the actual name of the piece and artist's name in the title while also having a link to the source in the comments.

  • Personal attacks, name calling, bigotry and extreme negativity are subject to removal and or banning, If you spot this use the report button or mod message to alert moderators.

  • If it's truly cyberpunk, you can post it, no matter the year or the style of the content, political articles, social discussions, latest novels, you name it, you can post it. If it's NSFW then tag it.

  • NO SPAM. If you want to promote your cyberpunk website, blog or forum, please contact the moderators, we will say yes more likely than not. Although if you're looking to sell T-shirts, the answer will probably be a no.

  • Moderators reserve the right to remove posts and comments as they see fit.

  • Please do not report things just because you disagree with them downvote and move on, remember Information wants to be free.


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    RAVEN - The Great Escape - art by me (bakaarts)

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    2024/03/28
    18:42 UTC

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    Sophie, It's an OC I made

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    2024/03/28
    16:53 UTC

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    MARS EXPRESS | Official English Trailer

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    2024/03/28
    16:49 UTC

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    DJI drone dock

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    2024/03/28
    13:24 UTC

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    HYPERGEIST, art by Cari Salviejo/AZ Volt, from a cyberpunk comic about an android on her quest for free will. Bad Bug Media.

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    2024/03/28
    10:14 UTC

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    Dredd 2012 an UNDERRATED SCI-FI/CYBERPUNK movie?!

    Just finished watching Dredd the 2012 version for the 10th time. And I gotta say. I love this movie even more. The matrix Blade Runner The Terminator are the top of the sci-fi movie genre list . But this is a way better version of Judge Dredd the Keith Urban portrays than the one Sylvester Stallone did in 1995

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    2024/03/27
    22:04 UTC

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    A Promise - (Children Of The Night Volume 2) Art by Erwin Arroza

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    2024/03/27
    20:36 UTC

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    Any fans of turn-based tactics and strategic gameplay out there? Take a look at a cyberpunk adventure with a unique plot and detailed artwork that my team has been creating for several years now.

    9 Comments
    2024/03/27
    18:38 UTC

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    The Horrors of AI

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    2024/03/27
    16:23 UTC

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    Near Sci-fi Cybernetic Centaur, referenced a Boston Dynamics robot for the prosthesis and Hip Disarticulation for the girl.

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    2024/03/27
    10:54 UTC

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    The Surge - #22 CREO Executive Forum part 2 (Lynx)

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    2024/03/27
    09:22 UTC

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    Futuristic Prostitution

    Hi fam,
    I'd like book recs about a Cyberpunk/Dystopian universe where there are brothels, bionic harlots. Bonus points if it's a the ambiance is a little Noire (crime, detective stories, etc.)

    Thank you!

    145 Comments
    2024/03/27
    02:10 UTC

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    I love Neurmancer and made a video exploring it's evolution over the years

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    2024/03/26
    23:47 UTC

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    London goes Low-Fi Cyberpunk (1 min film)

    imPLANT - Low-fi anamorphic 16mm film meets futuristic cyberpunk London, using the cheapest wind-up film camera available, the Krasnogorsk 3. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BOoiNzvI7g

    Synopsis: A stealth young women explores the hellish back alleys, desperate to find augmented-plant upgrades. Blending grainy analog film textures with 'handmade' digital VFX - I wanted the film to have a raw 'bootleg Soviet movie poster' style.

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    2024/03/26
    22:41 UTC

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    Love that 80's Neon Cyberpunk Aesthetic

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    2024/03/26
    22:08 UTC

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    Searcher 008 - Warlord by Calder Moore

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    2024/03/26
    17:41 UTC

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    The identity politics of the 2010s is the precursor development to cybernetic adoption

    While many of us focus on the technological and architectural developments that lead to a Cyberpunk world, I think some of us miss the cultural developments required to reach a Cyberpunk world. After reading excerpts from “A Cyborg Manifesto” written by Donna Haraway I’ve compiled some of my thoughts here.

    In order to manifest a society where cyborgs and cybernetics are prevalent, society has to first accept it and let people be more comfortable wearing it outside. The majority of society right now looks down upon body modifications and augmenting your body with steroids, tattoos, electronics. But as we continue to adopt them into our lives, the identity of being human begins to shift. If your body is 50% electronics and your gender specific reproductive parts have been fully replaced by cybernetics, what is gender at that point? Moreover, if your skin is fully replaced by cybernetics, visual perception of race is completely wiped away. These hypotheticals are a testament to the point that these are all social constructs that may disappear as we continue to merge with the machine.

    I believe the identity politics of the 2010s was like an incubator for society to figure these ideas out before people take bigger steps to actually modify their bodies. I don’t think it was intentional, but more of a blend of prospective technologies mixed with future social dynamics. While we didn’t directly discuss identity in the context of cyborg/cybernetics, we still faced the discussion with the transgender/gender/identity politics as a precursor. It’s almost like widespread social media identity politics modified our brains to think about identity like a modifiable cyborg, before hardware augments us physically. Our societal hive mind began questioning gender, race, and sexuality which are necessary steps to transition to being cyborgs. With the pace of technological development and cybernetics in mind, large scale identity politic discussions was inevitable to warm society up to the cultural ramifications of cybernetics and cyborgs.

    I’m hopeful that as a society we’ll continue pondering about the changing dynamics of human identity as we continue merging with the machine with both our minds and bodies.

    I’d love to hear people’s thoughts about identity politics and cyborgs.

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    2024/03/26
    17:32 UTC

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    OpenAI robot Figure showcase gone wrong

    This video is a meme. Original video : https://youtu.be/Sq1QZB5baNw

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    2024/03/26
    17:09 UTC

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    The Great Mango Crisis

    Dhaka, Bangladesh. The largest city in the world. By the year 2050 it was home to over 60 million people. As the sea levels rose, tens of millions of Bengalis found themselves displaced from their homes. For them Dhaka became the last safe place to call home.

    By the mid to late 21st century, climate change had already devastated the region. An average temperature increase of 4°C led to record heatwaves. With it the warming of the tropical sea and a worsening monsoon season. Extreme weather events that had gradually increased in frequency over the decades had become yearly events. Extreme rainfall, flash floods and overflowing riverbanks. The nation had found itself stuck in the middle of a crisis.

    The government did everything they could. Every social change, preventative measure, and policy to stop the worst from happening but it was never enough. As soon as one problem was dealt with another would show up. Seasonal crop failures caused by drought and in the same year flash floods that swept away the countryside. As conditions worsened many of the preventative measures that had been put into place over the years stopped working.

    As time passed by more than half of Bengalis were left without a job. In an attempt to save the economy, the government nationalized its workforce in order to provide food and aid to those in need. For a while it had worked but then problems began to surface corruption, bribery, theft. The misappropriation of resources and inadequate systems in place to help those in need. As tensions between regional groups rose a civil war broke out as factions in the Bengali government emerged over the unequal distribution of resources in the region. At the peak of the conflict the various factions converged onto Dhaka just as disaster struck.

    A Category 4 Cyclone had made it's ways onto the shores of Bangladesh. Unlike the ones before with the coast of the country now largely underwater. The cyclone was on a direct course towards the city. Without warning, Dhaka washed away.

    In the blink of an eye hundreds of thousands were dead, millions more missing. Overnight, Dhaka had collapsed and with it another crisis had begun. With more than a hundred million people without access to food and clean water. The new government did its best to handle the situation. But as it called out for international aid the world turned their backs to the nation.

    After year after year of failed returns, its credit rating had dropped. For every preventative measure it had taken to save the nation, the government had taken out billions in loans. With each failed project more and more nations lost interest in providing the basic aid needed to continue just to support the basic needs of the nation. Harsher conditions and restrictions just to rebuild the things they had lost until it wasn't enough. Over the decades they had gradually become a nation of debtors. A nation destroyed by climate change. At the peak of the crisis they had arrived.

    An abrupt attack on the Bengali Stock Exchange. Like other countries before it, as investments failed in the move towards a sustainable and clean future had failed. The Vulture Capitalists moved onto the Taka like they had with other countries struggling with their financial burdens. Deliberate attacks on financial currencies to rob the treasuries of foreign nations. For the Bangladeshi Taka in the span of a few hours, the value of the Taka had gone from 1 USD to 10,000 Taka to 1 to 1,000,000. Hundreds of billions of dollars were stolen overnight. Looted of its remaining funds the Bangladeshi government had finally collapsed.

    Unable feed its own people an offer arrives from the IMF. A bailout plan was made to ensure continued economic interests in the region. In return for humanitarian aid to the region Bangladesh would the end their nationalized economy. The few industries that had remained would be privatized under an Indian owned conglomerate known as the ARYA Group in the hopes of tying the two nations economically together. A standardized practice made after the collapse of Republic of Chad.

    Meanwhile, tens of millions of Bengalis had made their way into the Gangetic Plains, the agricultural center of India. Throughout the world billions of people watched on as pictures of dead children began to surface online. Videos from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh where mile long lines of people could be seen waiting to receive food and aid. Malnourished families that often looked more like skeletons than people and an uncomfortable silence as they wait.

    Under international trade India had found itself worse off. As its trade deals with Western allies fell apart it found itself isolated in Asia. Regional rivalries between countries quickly grew into cold war tensions of the previous century. At the peak of a trade war India had chosen the wrong partners. While it had quickly grown into a middle class economy it had quickly found itself stuck. Unable to compete with other regions, due to the cost of labor its economy stagnated. While estimates in the region had assumed by 2050 that more than 61% of it's population would enter into the middle class by 2070 less than 50% had become middle class. With even deeper barriers splitting the lower and upper halves. Protests erupted due to worsening conditions and a systemic failure to create jobs a new national plan was made.

    Talks between the South Asian states had finished with the majority of South Asia devastated by climate change. Agreements between nations of Bhutan, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh were made to form the South Asian Trade Federation (SATF). Under the new federation it would allow for the citizenship and free migration of people within the borders of the states.

    As the years went by under the SATF conditions normalized. While India had rapidly urbanized in the mid 21st century it found itself needing many lower class workers that many Indians had refused to work. For many climate refugees they found a role in these new megacities. While others became sharecroppers and farm hands for the ARYA Group in the Mango Belt. It had seemed as though everything was going well until the Himalayan glaciers had finally run dry.

    Throughout the world global food shortages had largely impacted the prices of food. As many nations withdrew from international trade to protect their own staple crops, most goods were traded along geopolitical lines. In India, protests erupt as crop failures increased over the decades, the government sought out to stabilize food prices. For more than half of rural India's farmers it had forced them into poverty, unable to escape and afford basic needs.

    In the Gangetic Plains due to drought and the receding Ganges River crop harvests fell significantly. Projections for the region saw an indefinite shortage of water to the Ganges would result in a long term food shortage tensions rose as Indian Government Officials rallied against Anti-Chinese sentiment as the sole cause of these economic woes. Blaming the heavy damming of the Tibetan Plateau for the losses, while in reality, more than 75% of the Himalayas had melted.

    As another conflict had broken out in Kashmir between Pakistan and India, continued hostilities in the region as escalations grew it lead to a terrorist attack on a Pakistan-Chinese railway. Though it is unclear who was at fault. International relations worsened as Chinese led military exercises in the region grew so did the number of soldiers from both India and Pakistan.

    Mango riots continue on the streets of India as hundreds of millions of farmers protest in demand of better living conditions. Some the former Bangladeshi's that were forced from their homes. Most others those that were left behind in India's New Urbanization Movement that had left behind more than half of India. Then in the blink of an eye it happened. A series of terrorist bombings of dams along the sacred river of the Yarlung Tsangopo as 20,000 were killed in Urban Centers around the area as a direct result.

    To the cheers of hundreds of millions, the Great Mango Crisis had begun. In the same cities where celebrations were being made, tens of thousands were killed in retaliatory bombings. In response, India launches an invasion of Tibet as fighting breaks out in Kashmir. During this period several insurgencies began to appear throughout Asia. As India moves to proclaim Tibet as part of its newly formed South Asian Trade Federation, internationally it faces heavy criticisms.

    India proclaims to the world that in order to protect it's water sovereignty, it must take Tibet in order to protect its own economic interests. These demands fall on deaf ears as others demand a free economic zone for many of the countries directly involved in the economic interests of the region. As insurgencies impact international trade India is left with most of the blame.

    India forces are pushed out of Kashmir while under heavy sanctions it continues its war in Asia. Supporting insurgencies and damaging international trade routes. It alone causes a recession of the global economy in the Eurasian continent. As a nuclear device is detonated in Central Asia the world stops. Excluded from international trade, India had become a hermit kingdom. As the international community continued with its demands, India refused to budge.

    Over the course of several years millions of lives were lost. As stalemates had continued. With international trade in many regions entirely halted by the damage that had been done. Talks resumed, much of India's crops had been lost. Without reserves and a potential famine now looming over their heads and billions of others that had been a direct cause of the war, no one had won. Like Ethiopia before it. India had hoped that it could use military force to pressure those around it into giving into its demands.

    As it made its demands to the international community, little had changed. Most were thrown out as others were considered. In return for the independence of Tibet it would receive subsidies to help recover its grain production facilities and aid for its people. Along with the loss its territories it lost at the end of the war to Pakistan. Unable to continue its war, India is forced to accept the terms. An increasing resentment grows as the nation is worse off than if it had done nothing at all.

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    2024/03/26
    13:41 UTC

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    I’m bored, is Mad Max cyberpunk?

    Cyberpunk 2020’s corebook listed it as a cyberpunk movie and it’s been bugging me for years. That’s literally the only reason I’m posting this, discuss.

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    2024/03/26
    05:44 UTC

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    Snow Crash Sumerian and Biblical mythology

    Finished Gibson's Sprawl and Bridge trilogies, loved them.

    Decided to jump on Stephenson's Snow Crash. Starts off strong and I like his humor and punchy prose.

    And then I got to the chapters where bro just goes on and on about Sumerian myth and Bible stuff and I'm just falling asleep lmao. It's the ones with Hiro talking to the Librarian daemon.

    I've been skipping these chapters... Anyone else skim or skip them too? Like, I don't think I'd miss much as it seems like filler

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    2024/03/25
    20:10 UTC

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    The supporting cast of my Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Comic BaadFood.

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    2024/03/25
    17:16 UTC

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    Anyone here read Chung Kuo?

    It's a pretty good chinese cyberpunky scifi future. I read them as a kid in the 90s. I think it more accurately predicts our future now in today's political climate lol (as in China > Japan). Some people say it is xenophobic but I dont think so, the Chinese aren't portrayed as evil or anything, just in charge. Main bad guy is a Brit I think. Also the author keeps rewriting them, and the first 2 books are now a prequel that didn't exist before, so maybe skip those.

    18 Comments
    2024/03/25
    16:57 UTC

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