Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." It is also a subgenre of industrial rock music. The name is derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983,[1] although the style was popularized well before its publication by editor Gardner Dozois. It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or a radical change in the social order.

—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk began as near-future sci-fi but the future is already here, it's just not widely distributed yet, and so many of us find ourselves becoming cyberpunks living in a world of now-future science fact.

Cybernetics:
The study of control mechanisms such as thermostats, guided missile guidance systems, and other early "smart" machines. Pioneered by the mathematicians Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann, the term "cybernetics" comes from "cyber" or "steer" in Greek. Cybernetics is interested in how machines can be constructed to "steer" themselves such as in guided missiles. After World War II, Cybernetics was instrumental in the development of Artificial Intelligence and General Systems Theory. Cybernetics ideas spread to a host of other fields including physiology, neuroscience, operations research, various engineering disciplines and so on. Along the way, cybernetics became interested in machine learning and thus provided a foundation for Artificial Intelligence and was the first field where ideas of self-organization were conceived. Cybernetics has made much use of the concept of equilibrium and has conceived of self- organization in terms of the self-regulation of equilibrium-seeking systems. Furthermore, cybernetics posits the need for a "requisite variety" between the internal states of a system and the variation in its environment. In this way, cybernetics has laid important groundwork for the study of adaptation of complex systems to a complex environments.
Themes: How systems can be understood in terms of the dynamics of negative and positive feedback; how systems can regulate their own behavior; adaptational, tranformative, and learning processes in complex systems
Researchers/Theorists: Norbert Wiener, W. Ross Ashby, Heinz von Foerster, Arthur Burks, Gregory Bateson (applied to psychology and social systems), and Stafford Beer (applied to businesses)
Glossary: Equilibrium; Feedback; Information

 

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Roses and Devo and the Recession


Groups: Collective Effervescence, Consciousness Raising, Cyberpunk, diversity of tactics, Dollaring, Down is the new Up, Guerilla Surrealism, Viralink Industries

Ahhh mission accomplished.  I was feeling a little down earlier so I went out and entertained myself.  I spent 30 dollars and hired a few local homeless guys for a few hours.  One threw paper flower pedals in front of me while I marched downtown from the big new library and through downtown and back to the indian resturant.  He carried a sign I hade that said "Duty now: for the future!"  I had 2 of the others follow behind me and yell "I'm shouting!" whenever I gave them a hand signal and "SHOUT" when I did another (they got it well on their own later).  I then yelled a song repeatedly during all 45 minutes of this operation.  Here are the lyrics for Devo - Shout.  I made sure my body language was as threatening as I could be, but making sure to sing only in a monotone robot voice.  Some fled me, some kinda hid on the other side of a tree.  The guys really appreciated such an easy 10 dollars.

 

Shout shout

i'm shoutin' about the world outside
i'm shoutin' because you just can't hide
i'm shoutin' from the plain honest truth
i'm shoutin' there's so much we could do

Shout i'm shoutin' shoutin' shoutin'

I'm shoutin' because it's hard to believe
i'm shoutin' it's so easy to see
i'm shoutin' we're waitin' for a reply
i'm shoutin' for the very last time

shout well baby this one's for you
shout for everything that you do
shout until the battle is won
shout we'll live to fight on and on

and when you add it all together
and when you roll it in a ball
and when you watch another pyramid
as it's about to fall
remember you were there
remember if you care
all those who held their ground
when it all came down
said shout shout

shout it out

 

 Though I'm having trouble raising rent this month, I still think it was a fine investment. Next time we will use kazoos.

Cyberpunk


Groups: Cyberpunk
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Belief
To me, a cyberpunk is someone who makes themself. I self-identify as a cyberpunk, and I often find myself explaining it so that people remember and describe me as a cyberpunk too.

The 'cybernetics' part of cyberpunk is important. Cybernetics means making intelligent learning systems with control mechanisms that "steer", guide, organize and adapt themselves to achieve equilibrium in complex environments. Mastering technology is merely a means for cyberpunks to master themselves and shape the future before it shapes them.

Some eWaste components that are unusable can be recycled for craftivist projects.


Groups: Craftivism, Cyberpunk, If something for reuse doesn't work try and salvage parts that individually can be reused., Viralink Industries eWaste Consultancy
Idea Category: 
Belief

Circuit boards and chips and wire in some cases can be turned into other things that are NOT computers.

 

Art peices, hacker-hip jewelry, robot experiments, bent music instruments, and more are all possbly uses of eWaste for a creative individual.

Warren Ellis


Groups: Cyberpunk, Viralink Industries

Warren Ellis is a writer of comic books.  He is an audience of one.  The approval of Warren Ellis and the notation of something he approves of on his blog is generally then relain to a large cyberpunk social network.

 

 

Mother Mary come to me for I'm a wicked child. We have sinned n-r-so confused.


Groups: Cyberpunk, Guerilla Surrealism, Radical-Off, Synchronicity, The secret to ultimate power., Viralink Industries
Idea Category: 
Belief

Use a projector to project a faint image of the mother mary onto the side of a building.  You can do this on a large building during the day if you hit a shade side.  Watch the crowd for someone to stop and notice it.  Allow that person to excitedly point it out to one battery or individual.  Stop the broadcast of the image before there can be another wave. 

 

That'll show someone something.

Cyberpunk


Groups: Cyberpunk, Wog
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Belief

By definition of the two core terms of "Cyber" meaning Mechanical or Technological, and "Punk" meaning any person(s) who lives a lifestyle with out Economic Sophistication who often are rebelios or adapt a survivalistic and/or Tribalistic mentality. These persons are often working against a percieved social regiem, or cultural dogmatic ideal. by combining the two terms, one develops a new concept, that would default in logic to be thus defined as; "A person who chooses to adapt more modern, Technological and/ or Mechanical systems into their already Survivalist or Tribalised system of social interstion or Ideal."

Another Mind set might be presented as; "A person who chooses to Rebel against a social regiem or commonly percieved ideal while using Modern Technological or Mechanical Equiptment in a Utilitarian ideal to help them to facilitate and achieve their end goal.

Cyberpunk


Groups: Cyberpunk
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Belief