You heard it from Bruce Sterling first: Design Observer Hates Steampunk
(((Man, this is priceless. The backlash has begun! Oh wait a sec -- steampunk is "back" by definition, so maybe this pained screed is better described as a "frontlash.")))
(((Maybe Randy Nakamura would like "steampunk" better if it was called "Eamespunk" and involved making computers out of bent plywood.)))
Link: Design Observer.
"In its essence Steampunk seems suburban in its attitude: nostalgic for an imagined, non-existent past, politically quietist, and culturally insular hidden behind cul-de-sacs of carefully styled anachronisms that let in no chaos or ferment. The larger, more impossible questions are missing. How would the Victorian imagination conceive and execute a functioning computer? The answer must be more interesting than adding wood veneers to your laptop or turning a mouse into a contraption of gears that looks more like a medieval torture device.
"We are being taken for rubes...."
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I think Nakamura got up on the wrong side of the bed.
Full entry over at Core77.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Eamespunk?
Posted by: Unknown at 7/23/2008 01:39:00 PM
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