Transmitting from the underground bunker of Cyberstopia
Cyberstopia. We are nowhere. We are everywhere. We lurk in the shadows. We hide in plain sight. Cyberstopia is all around you. Oh, yeah, and we’re here on Substack. Cyberstopia is not a corporation. We are not a website. You won’t find us on the bottom shelf at TJ Jones. You cannot pre-order us at Waterstones. We don’t come free in a box of Frosties, or as part of a Happy Meal. We do not have ads or sponsors. You won’t hear anyone talk about us, but we’re here. We are omnipresent. And we are watching.
The best cyberpunk and dystopian media, that is. Cyberstopia exists to draw attention to the kind of content that we love. Cyberpunk, dystopia, if it’s Cyberstopic, we want to talk about it. Straight off, let’s address the elephant in the room. A lot of the movies, TV shows and literary content that we’re going to cover will be coming via the large corporations; Amazon, Apple, Netflix. We realise this isn’t in keeping with the anti-corporate spirit of cyberpunk, but look, cyberpunk and dystopic art is at its best when it shines a light on the evils of capitalism, and elitism. This media educates, it illuminates. In order to consume and share this content, we have to co-exist within the commercialised framework that our culture exists in. We don’t have to like it. But to paraphrase the most Cyberstopic of the MCU movies (come on, it even has Robert Redford in it), Cyberstopia takes the world as it is, not as we’d like it to be.
This is not a manifesto, it’s merely an introduction. Cyberstopic media is scattered on the fringes. It is difficult to curate. We’re here to track down and shine a light on the media that matters. All from the underground bunker of Cyberstopia.
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