An important subcultural question of our time

[brooksmoses]

CRTpunk: too soon?


(It is, of course, the next logical step after dieselpunk. If it doesn't exist yet I want credit for naming it.)

Comments

[quercus.livejournal.com]

CRTpunk has been around for nearly 30 years, since Gilliam's 'Brazil'. Just look at the tiny CRTs mounted on top of the Teleprinter 7s in the Ministry of Information Retrieval.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

How about MAX HEADROOM?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Too soon, they're still an in-use technology in many places. Merely mundane...

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Real Genius and War Games, too.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

And diesel isn't?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

True, but diesel has more early-20th-century chic? Diesel invented it in 1893...

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I thought atompunk was claiming to be the successor to dieselpunk. But I'm not sure either one really is. The core idea is a maker culture (that being the punk part) that forms around a ubiquitous technology that has a transformational effect on society. To me, that would suggest that car culture, and most especially the hotrod culture of the 50s, is the next step after dieselpunk.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

yeah, whyever not crt punk. would blend almost seamlessly into early cyberpunk.