Is classic cyberpunk another version of Africanfuturism?

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I thought about it while reading Neuromancer, with how exaggerated Asian-centred the future is shown in the book and other works, and how laughable it is in retrospect (Japan's economy nukes itself not long after, and stayed down).

Now you could definitely argue that unlike Africanfuturism, there was at least somewhat logical reason for that line of thought, but it's still a somewhat masturbatory "look how bad the minority beat us" type of setting.

 

[Raven of the Burning God]

Necromancer was published in 1984.

That Japan was going to eat America's lunch would have been pretty reasonable based on then-recent history and contemporary trends.

And since Neuromancer essentually founded the genre and Gibson continued to write stories set in that timeline, if you stray too far from that future world, people stop recognizing it as cyberpunk.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I thought about it while reading Neuromancer, with how exaggerated Asian-centred the future is shown in the book and other works, and how laughable it is in retrospect (Japan's economy nukes itself not ling after, and stayed down).

Just replace Japan with China until their various internal economic crises boil over.

After that, it's straight to the Land of Paradise: India.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Just replace Japan with China until their various internal economic crises boil over.

After that, it's straight to the Land of Paradise: India.

They did it in the second Spiderverse film, of course it was as connected to irl India as an Indian's ass to a toilet seat.

 

[FedPostalService]

Do white people even season their cyberpunk?

 

[dick brain]

Well yeah, the dominant culture in a cyberpunk setting needs to be nonwhite, otherwise it wouldn't be a dystopia.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Yes. Cybeprunk is a high crime hellhole setting.

 

[Preacher ✝]

Africans don't have a concept of futurism.

Tema 'Quantum Nigger Theory'

22 de Ago, 2025

Last October anon put forth this theory on /pol/.



The gist of it is that for people with a low average IQ, the future is difficult, if not impossible, to conceptualize, and this has a noteworthy impact on reasoning plus the resulting behavior.

These same conclusions were drawn by Dr. Mungo Park during his exploration of Africa at the end of the 18th Century, as documented in his book Travels in the Interior of Africa.



Of course these are all outside observations, if only we had it straight from the monkey's mouth...

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[AskNotForWhomthePozLoads]

You're taking it too literally by focusing on the wrong details. It's more about the general idea that technological advancements once thought to be fantastical and utopian will be abused by corporations and anyone out to make a quick buck to turn soyciety into a living hell. Global adoption of social media in the 21st century and the effects thereof have already proven that premise to be firmly grounded in reality.