Cyberpunk is a totally vapid aesthetic mainly rooted in an ultimate affirmation of the plasticity of identity under changing material conditions. Over time this idea has been exhausted and reduced into a cliched set of stock design elements like leather clothes and colored hair

Cybernetics is not the future, but the crescendo of a “control revolution” that began circa 1900 and peaked around 1960. It was never about gender hacking or transhumanism, but organization and control of information following Claude Shannons transmutation of everything into data

Filing cabinets are cyberpunk, Weberian bureaucracy is cyberpunk, holding companies and trusts are cyberpunk, scientific management, think tanks, industrial laboratories are cyberpunk, public opinion polls and sociology are cyberpunk.

Neon lights and ketamine arent a philosophy