CYB3RSH0CK_
The new clear dawn of the digital age illuminates a landscape of dissembled symbols and cybernetic synthesis. But is it all that we dreamed—or everything we feared, twice-manifest in binary flesh?
_WE’RE SIMILAR. WE’RE COMPATIBLE. WE’RE PERFECT.
BY BECCA YOUNG — Robots and chatbots are ideal lovers, without any of the messiness that comes with a partner's autonomy. What happens when they desire us back?
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AUDIO VIRUS_
Permanent waves. Dischordance and discord. Limitless trebleraising and the sonic shock of a million synthetic cries, sampled and resampled until auditory reality melts into an ocean of sonic mayhem.
“Electronic and house music has shown how it’s possible to destroy the old rules. But it has started to set its own new rules. We wanted to destroy the new rules.”
— Thomas Bangalter
(This issue’s playlist was curated by musician and composer Molly Noise. Read her thoughts on cyberpunk here.)
_A LATE CYBERPUNK MANIFESTO
BY COLIN BROADMOOR — An AI couldn’t write this. It was not there when we were born, children on the digital frontier. It was not there to see life beyond “the end of history.”
FEATURES_
We are digital travelers on a thin raft of the barest humanity, adrift upon a sea of the unreal. Data boils, and synthetic beasts breech electric waves. There is nothing for us here. There is EVERYTHING for us here.
(CYBER)PUNK IS DEAD
BY MOLLY NOISE
THEY’RE NOT GOING TO MAKE YOU AN IMMORTAL INTERNET GOD
BY NORBERT DANIELS JR.
STRANGE DAYS IN CUPERTINO
BY CHRISTINE GERARDI
(REVIEW) THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION
BY KURT SCHILLER