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Is minimalism cyberpunk?
| I think minimalism belongs to white optimistic future (Star Trek ect) while Cyberpunk is the opposite dark grimy future
| That's more post-cyberpunk than actual cyberpunk.
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| Nah, in cyberpunk everything is full of details, exposed wires, irregular plating patterns, suggestive propaganda and contrast everywhere
| >>141755
>Is minimalism cyberpunk?
It goes aesthetically pretty well along with a corporate version orwellsh dystopia. The minimalist design philosophy is one materialization of social alienation from a upperclass elite that lives lifes on the back of a opressed working-class.
| >>142495
Just imagine a fancy-apple alike minimalist designer room in the top of an huge glassed-skyscraper, people in minimalist futuristic designer wear drinking wine, eating fancy snacks, discussing about spritualism, philosophy or beauty, that they even find in war, poverty and crime, while down below them the proletarian masses work, fight, kill, live and die in the dirt for the sake of the rich.
| >>141762
but there is also another form of minimalism:
the anti-civilsationist one, that wants to overcome the social alienation by refusing technological advance and go back in time. It's more like anti-cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is about using technology to beat the ones that are abuse it to exploit others, not about refusing it.
| >>141762
>I think minimalism belongs to white optimistic future (Star Trek ect) while Cyberpunk is the opposite dark grimy future
How do the Borg fit in ur thesis? They are also somehow minimalistic in a very pessimistic way.
| i think brutalism and the totalitarianism associated with it is the most cyberpunk ive seen
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