From 066ffac7e007a308239abc573a0a6ba581f017c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: anon Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 05:06:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] edited spacing --- deadmiami.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/deadmiami.md b/deadmiami.md index 9039ffc..53f7da2 100644 --- a/deadmiami.md +++ b/deadmiami.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ## i. Into the Machine - In a spectacular society, images not only have the power to subjagate but to inspire and change. Things diffused in the media can either help people delve +In a spectacular society, images not only have the power to subjagate but to inspire and change. Things diffused in the media can either help people delve futher in infantile fantasies, or awaken them to the truths of a world working against them. After all Debord's classic is distributed in print. The dual nature of media, as both subjagation and liberation is reflected well in the Cyberpunk movement. Though many would hesitate to call it movement, there's no doubt that it created an extremely accurate description of the world we live(d) in. Its motto: High Tech Low life, is the centerpiece of the movement and its main take on capita- @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ cyberpunk world. Its not uncommon to see a person who can barely afford to feed ## ii. Cyberpunk as Truth, not Gospel - What happened after our entrance into the cyberpunk world was not surprising. While intially the Cyberpunk movement had a decent insurrectionary current, it +What happened after our entrance into the cyberpunk world was not surprising. While intially the Cyberpunk movement had a decent insurrectionary current, it didn't take long for the domestication to seep into what was once a angry punk movement. For many, Cyberpunk was the mirror held up to society,a cautionary tale of would happen if humans became lesser than technology. The threat of of malicious technocracy was enough to inspire a wave of unix gray-breads and nerds of all breeds to create defensive software. There was an idea to take back the tools used for opression, to not only fight back, but to liberate ourselves(sometimes from the perceived @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ to erode the soul's of its inhabitants.[3]The statement, "Cyberpunk is dead" had ## iii. Rebirth - A ketamine infused cyber-stupor was now the mainstream. Fortunately, this state has been interupted by collapse. Collapse has only changed the aesthetic +A ketamine infused cyber-stupor was now the mainstream. Fortunately, this state has been interupted by collapse. Collapse has only changed the aesthetic landscape due to its presence becoming impossible to ignore and its migration to the forefront of the average North American's perception basically changed everything. There's no doubt that a gut wrenching panic and fear has become the background radiation. Eventually most of us became used to it. Nowadays making bad jokes about such things is commonplace. In one way or another it's clear to most people that the world is ending in some form. This sentiment was enough to bring in the next "big" player: Solarpunk. For those closer to @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ who claim that title are content to see the capitalist machine adapt to global w ## iv. Answers - A good aesthetic movement accomplishes one of two things. One, it recognizes the current state of the world and two, builds a story around that state that +A good aesthetic movement accomplishes one of two things. One, it recognizes the current state of the world and two, builds a story around that state that inspires action. So whats the state of the world? Well there is none. Collapse is quite the shakeup but its no guarantee the empires are going to die. Some areas are in the neolithic and some are in 2078. With the power of mass media we dont see one story. We see many. Collapse is a trend that will effect all the regions of the world in distinct ways. For some its the end of their world, for others it'll be something short of utopia. All that can be said is that things are definitely