Everything You Need To Know About CyberPunk

All that we know and you should know

 

- Shreya Bhattacharya

What is Cyberpunk?

To start off with, let me clarify that trying to define Cyberpunk is a difficult task. In short, however, Cyberpunk refers to both a culture and a genre.

Cyberpunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that features advanced science and technology in an urban, dystopian future. On one side you have powerful mega corporations and private security forces, and on the other you have the dark and gritty underworld of illegal trade, gangs, drugs, and vice. In between all of this is politics, corruption, and social upheaval.

Cyberpunk is also a culture with attitude and a distinct style. Anti-authoritarian, brand averse, tech-literate; these are just some of the qualities you may find in a cyberpunk.

Cyberpunk Origins

Cyberpunk began as a literary movement but has become a subcultural organism. “What is Cyberpunk?” is a complex and multi-layered question, whose answer is ever-changing as the subculture and our perception of the future changes. The tendrils, that began in the written word, have infiltrated beyond movies to all forms of art, fashion and philosophy generating an all-encompassing and ever growing subculture.