The dystopia we have now is a far cry from the cool tech-fantasy-shit in Gibson books.
Cyberpunk wasn't a genre of anti-capitalist fiction, it was a sub-genre in SciFi literature that was interesting for a decade because most of the mainstream SciFi at the time was trope and fucking boring. Eventually matured and was integrated as part of the greater genre.
The anti-capitalists seized on it since it aligned with their fantasy evil corporations Luddite attitudes. But they also latched on the Brunner's earlier fiction which is the origin of modern cyberpunk.
As for "Blade Runner", more film nerds like the movie than others. Nobody want's to live in that world or fantasize about Telsa's joke of a truck.
And most sane Gen-Xs aren't nostalgic about fantasy material things, we remember a time with some goodness that wasn't completed fucked up yet by the greedy Boomers in charge...
The dystopia we have now is a far cry from the cool tech-fantasy-shit in Gibson books.
Cyberpunk wasn't a genre of anti-capitalist fiction, it was a sub-genre in SciFi literature that was interesting for a decade because most of the mainstream SciFi at the time was trope and fucking boring. Eventually matured and was integrated as part of the greater genre.
The anti-capitalists seized on it since it aligned with their fantasy evil corporations Luddite attitudes. But they also latched on the Brunner's earlier fiction which is the origin of modern cyberpunk.
As for "Blade Runner", more film nerds like the movie than others. Nobody want's to live in that world or fantasize about Telsa's joke of a truck.
And most sane Gen-Xs aren't nostalgic about fantasy material things, we remember a time with some goodness that wasn't completed fucked up yet by the greedy Boomers in charge...