Tag: 1995
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Cyberpunk key dates
A bit of chronology for my DC-84 research project 1982: “Blade Runner” – Ridley Scott1983: Bruce Bethke coins the term “cyberpunk”1984: Neuromancer by William Gibson (cyberspace)1986: “Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology,” – Bruce Sterling editor1986: Steve Jackson Games releases “GURPS Cyberpunk”1988: “Islands in the Net” by Bruce Sterling1990: “Operation Sundevil” raid by the Secret Service on…
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Before Sunrise as dérive
So I recently had the synchronicity of re-watching Before Sunrise and reading Guy Debord’s Theory of the Dérive in the same week. https://rohandrape.net/ut/rttcc-text/Debord2006e.pdf One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive [literally: “drifting”], a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. It strikes me that Before Sunrise captures a dérive of: If you look…