Comments on: Post-steampunk movements

By: subhan

subhan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:30:00 +0000

Nazi punk, nazi punk, nazi, punk, fsck off!

Tales of a world where Jello Biafra leads a zombie political dynasty attempting to overthrow Space Nazis that won WWII and subsequently developed a taste for speed metal.

By: subhan

subhan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:24:00 +0000

Sorry, Sam, The Flinstones already did it, and it is *so* over

By: Doug Flint

Doug Flint — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:29:00 +0000

Wait, are you saying Malcom MacLaren ISN’T responsible for all technological innovation since 1970?

By: CSBD

CSBD — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:44:00 +0000

Clichepunk- no really, this is how the really hip and cool kids dress.

By: Strato Head

Strato Head — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:05:00 +0000

SelfAbusePunk: People who wank off by adding the pseudo suffix “punk” on to everything as if it wasn’t allready a lame cliche

By: Tim Gingrich

Tim Gingrich — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:41:00 +0000

Carbonpunk: once the world is out of fossil fuels, young people who are not familiar with the evils of CO2 will dream of driving a real internal combustion engine vehicle “like the good ole’ days.” I wrote a story about it! The Future History of Travel (www.gotoofareast.com/tfhot)

By: CSBD

CSBD — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:28:00 +0000

If you get more than two or three of these “punk” groups standing near each other… you would be able to finally film a remake of “The Warriors”.

Who gets to be Cyrus?

By: Those Darn Cats!

Those Darn Cats! — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:17:00 +0000

Themepunk: Obsessive and mildly hipster-esque fans of theme parks, especially Disney. I first saw the term used by Geoff Carter here: http://www.yoursouvenirguide.com/2011/01/epcot-20-welcome-new-corporate-overlords.html .

By: Edward Pearse

Edward Pearse — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:38:00 +0000

My biggest problem with the various “suffixpunk” genres is the re-invention of existing genres by people too lazy to bother finding out the proper name (cf. Dieselpunk or Atom(ic)punk) , or they’re inventing micro-niche genres so specific that you’ll probably only ever encounter the word as an example, not as a published description.

By: billstewart

billstewart — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:04:00 +0000

“Tamepunk: [...] domesticating strange magical beasts” –
Paolo Bacigalupi’s Hugo-winning The Windup Girl has elements of this and clockpunk and genepunk, with mutant megadonts winding up springs as the main source of mechanical energy available in a post-peak-oil-warmed-globe dystopia. “Repent, Heffalump, said the Tick-Tock Man!”

By: Angel Moberly

Angel Moberly — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:55:00 +0000

That would be Tamepunk.

By: Daniel Neville

Daniel Neville — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:54:00 +0000

Hate to self promote, but I wrote the Eamespunk manifesto a few years back. Better living through plywood!

http://nevolution.typepad.com/theories/2008/07/the-eamespunk-m.html

By: SedanChair

SedanChair — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:28:00 +0000

So what’s the prefix for the universe we actually inhabit? I always imagined people in the Steampunk universe reading speculative fiction about people living in suburbs.

By: Chris Lee

Chris Lee — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:12:00 +0000

Selfesteempunk – feeling really good about your gear-covered corset.

By: Chris Lee

Chris Lee — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:12:00 +0000

Extreampunk – BASE jumping with top hat and goggles.

By: jere7my

jere7my — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:04:00 +0000

I am sooooo ready for steamdisco.

By: ($) Stephen Dann

($) Stephen Dann — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:00:00 +0000

AMPunk: A world inhabited by people dressed as talkback radio listeners and shock-jock DJs and callback phone line operators… oh. It’s been done already?

By: geekcalif

geekcalif — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:22:00 +0000

Isn’t that wonderful?

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:09:00 +0000

Thanks – I hadn’t seen the term before, but that’s a perfect description of it.

By: tyger11

tyger11 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:59:00 +0000

Bork!Bork!punk – where Sweden took over the world.

By: Evil Paul

Evil Paul — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:56:00 +0000

Punkpunkpunk

By: laurasbadideas

laurasbadideas — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:04:00 +0000

Screampunk: everything looks like an Edvard Munch painting.

By: JoshP

JoshP — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:28:00 +0000

Claypunk??… No wait, that’s Chuck Testa.

By: John Ohno

John Ohno — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:12:00 +0000

I’ve been trying to push ‘ataripunk’ for a while. It’s what cyberpunk would have been if it stopped trying to keep up with actual tech circa 1983, though more elaborate backstories usually involve the PARC UI for whatever reason never being prototyped, leading to a technical aesthetic where graphics are still associated with video games and work that is not inherently graphical in nature is still performed using non-graphical interfaces, despite the normal progression of other tech.

By: John Ohno

John Ohno — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Well, we already have mathpunk… so, yeah, probably.

By: Hubris Sonic

Hubris Sonic — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:56:00 +0000

hatepunks… covers the mass of people who hate the whimsey in the steampunk genre.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:21:00 +0000

Cool… That reminds me, wasn’t there a trailer for a “Nazis on the moon” movie floating around a while back. Iron Sky or something like that.

By: ahwoo

ahwoo — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:14:00 +0000

We’re doing WW2Punk here and making a film about it this summer.

By: Richard Melvin

Richard Melvin — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:10:00 +0000

Meatpunk: the magical aristocracy of the city rule with not an iron hand, but a flesh one. In the towers they are called flesh constructs, on the streets they are zombies.

Either way, a knife, or any other legal weapon, can’t stop them. Rebellion may be impossible, but it is necessary.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0000

I hadn’t made the observation before, but LA is definitely filled with examples of that style, considering that this guy was right by my office downtown.

Now that I look again, with the position of that column the shot fits better with the 7-11 post.