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Industrial
Influences & Stuff
Movies
Bladerunner
The first and best of cyberpunk movies. It was the first movie to portray
the science fiction future as something other than a sterile utopia.
Nobody had ever portrayed a future where the rich get roicher, the poor
get poorer, todays new buildings become run down, and the slums get bigger.
Escape
from New York
A classic gritty action movie. Kurt Russel plays and anti-hero who
must save the President trapped in NYC which is now walled off as a
prison.
Tetsuo, Iron man
Japanese strangeness that is sure to appeal to those who fetishize technology.
Two men fight it out while having their bodies taken over by metal and
machines, one by rusted iron and another by chrome steel.
Akira
Classic anime of street punks, cool bikes, psychic powers, and exploding
cities.
Ghost in the Shell
Another favorite anime involving police cyborgs, robot tanks, secret
conspiracies, and lots of gunfire.
Max Headroom
Vision of a dark 80's future: news reporters firghting for the truth,
punk rockers running pirate radio stations, and slick corperate buisnessmen
trying to screw everybody over. Most notable as introducing one of the
first computer generated personalities and terms such as "blipverts".
Alien
and Aliens
Just good dark sci-fi. The first is suspence horror and the second
one is an action film.
Videodrome
David Cronenberg at his best. A source of many samples used by bands.
Debbie Harry burns herself with cigarettes while others try and take
over the world through mind control.
Artists
Survival Research Labortories
Machines doing everything machines shouldn't but we want to see them
do anyway.
Dr. Megavolt
Electricity can do some amazing things and this group shows some
of them off with their Tesla coils.
Authors
There are two main types of authors included here, science
fiction and post-modern. Not all science fiction falls into
this realm
by much does,
especially the genre known as cyberpunk.
J.G. Ballard
A sci-fi author as well as novelist. He wrote Empire of the
Sun (an autobigraphy) which was turned into the movie of
the same
name as
well as Crash which
also became a movie. Although the book was a statment on
consumerism, the movie was something totally different.
John
Shirley
An old punk rocker turned sci-fi author to put out Eclipse,
one of the early cyberpunk books.
Bruce Sterling
More cyberpunk sci-fi.
William Gibson
The father of cyber-punk sci-fi. Neuromancer set the
stage that other stories of it's like will be judged
by. It was
one of the
first stories
to have a dark future, anti-heroes, nano tech, sentient
AIs all together as well as coining the idea and
phrase of cyberspace.
Hard to believe
it was all written on a manual typewriter by somebody
who didn't even own a computer.
William S. Burroughs
More strangeness than you can hit with a stick. Most
known for his book The Naked lunch as well as cut
up method.
The cut up
method is the idea
that if you take a writing or writings, cut it
up, usually right down the center of the pages, and then
past them
back together
again,
you
come up with a completly new and original writing.
Strangely effective at times.
Magazines
Past
Nexus 6
Outburn
Currrent
Industrial natioN
Paranoia
Sideline
Zillo
Orkus
D-Side
Sonic Seducer
Books
Industrial Culture Handbook
by Re/Search
Storming the Reality Studio
edited by
Apocalypse Culture
edited by Adam Parfrey
Apocalypse Culture II
edited by Adam Parfrey
Cult Rapture
Secret and Supressed
Modern Primitive
by Re/Search
Mirrorshades
edited by Bruce Sterling |