Variations on a Name: The -Punks of Our Times

[inflatableDodo]

Just thought of togapunk, and found it has a single mention on instagram and another single one on twitter by different people 8 years apart.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/togapunk/

https://twitter.com/hashtag/togapunk

edit - am now wondering about a crack team of ancient greek philosophers using resonant pendulums to try and hack an airgapped ankythera mechanism.

[shackenberg]

Also check out this neat illustrated "timeline" of "-punks". https://imgur.com/gallery/WkIU2

Only the end I would change. First I would put Cyberpunk into the 1990-2000 years. And then I would add another category for all movies that have this "bright", "plastic" and "clean" look like GATTACA, 2001, Minority Report or Oblivion. And then add another category for all the rough and dirty movies like District nine or Edge of tomorrow that seem to be fashionable now. But I don't have good names for these yet. What do you think?

[mxuribe]

First of all, that is a great "timeline" of the "-punks"!

To your question about a name for the District 9, etc. era, I'm thinking something depressive, sort of "not looking forward to what the present/near future holds"...but can't think of anything better than: nihilpunk or nilpunk. Good question though!

[ska]

   First I would put Cyberpunk into the 1990-2000 years.

I don't see how this works, most of the core Cyberpunk books were at least technologically well past even current level, let alone 2000ish. What is your thinking for 1990-2000 ?

[failrate]

Knuppunk: hardcore palindrome enthusiasts

[Bonooru]

I think knupunk has a better ring to it, and is still a palindrome.

[mcphage]

I’m a fan of Seusspunk... the kind of semi-organic machines with everything operated by robot hands wearing white gloves.

[riffraff]

as someone whose kids love The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse I will henceforth identify them as seusspunk enthusiasts.

[mieseratte]

Aww, it left off my favorite "-punk" of all: trustpunks. Trust-fund children who, for whatever reason, find the need to pretend to be poor punks.

[inflatableDodo]

Anarchosyndicalism's history does lead to Prince Kropotkin, who was in some ways the very model of a trustafarian uppercrusty.

[veritas_veritad]

Taking minor offense that solarpunk is considered an invented fiction. Permies have been lusting after it as a reality for at least 10 years haha

[spacegod]

Plasticpunk

Featherpunk

Postpunk

[haxterstockman]

Next time someone says "just let people enjoy things" I'm going to point them to this article and ask them if this is what they really want for this world

[inflatableDodo]

I see you are into misanthropunk.

[mcphage]

What do you mean by this?