Are you interested in punks universes and much more specifically to cyberpunk? You want to learn a little more about its derivative styles like the Nanopunk universe?
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To come back to this article, let's see together:
- The Origin and the influence of nanopunk
- The Presentation of the Nanopunk universe
- The cinematographic and literary references nanopunk
Let's go!
nanopunk: a cyberpunk subgenre
The Steampunk universe was popularized during the time of Jules Verne and Tim Powers, in the 18th and 19th century. This is noted in particular by the dress style strongly inspired by the Victorian era where the men wore costumes and hats Haute-Form and the women were walking with Corsets dresses. The term steampunk dissects in two parts: steam for steam. As for punk , we will come back to this later! But with that, we imagine that steam will be an important line in the steampunk current. These are steam and pressure mechanisms ! And you will quickly see that each punk current will have its own technology. You will then understand that the suffix -punk will identify the central theme of the universe .
In the case of cyberpunk, a more recent popularized current at the end of the 20th century, we can deduce that it will be a futuristic universe where cybernetics will reign And information networks . Often described as a dystopia, the cyberpunk universe includes several sub-genres such as biopunk or nanopunk, like Clockpunk universe which is a derivative of the Steampunk universe. But, today, we will mainly dwell on the Nanopunk!
presentation of the Nanopunk current
As for the description of all other punk genres, we will describe our universe by presenting the era in which the Nanopunk universe is inspired and the main theme of the nanopunk < /Strong>! Let's go!
a futuristic dystopia
As said before, nanopunk is derived from the Cyberpunk universe . This means that the universe takes place in a future very close dystopian! clan wars, glaring differences between wealth and poverty, highlighting drugs and sex, constant violence. We could note the legendary film Blade Runner (and its remake with Blade Runner 2047 ) or the game Cyberpunk 2077 . Also note that there are other universes based on cyberpunk like postcyberpunk, Solarpunk or Biopunk. But we will have the opportunity to talk about it in other articles!
a more advanced science than bio-technology
cyberpunk bases his theme on cybernetics. So highlighting hacking and trans-humanism is highly highlighted! Biopunk will linger on the aspect of trans-humanism by pushing the concept of bio-technology. Mutations, organic weapons, monsters and other disasters that transgress the blasphemy of the scent! Well the nanopunk will linger on nano-technology ! And therefore, will highlight a more advanced technology than that used in the biopunk universe . We could therefore think of a mixture between nano-technology and genetic mutation! Relatively recent, the Nanopunk universe has not yet reached its potential maximum , it is therefore quite difficult to be able to define the genre precisely.
Some references in the nanopunk universe
To finish the article, it is time to have some references nanopunk ! You can therefore discover this universe with:
- The age of diamond by Neal Stephenson
- the margins of the vision of Linda Nagata
- La Maison des Derviches by Ian McDonald
- bloom by Wil McCarthy
in-depth your culture steampunk!
And here you are a specialist in Nanopunk current! In this article, we learned that this style was a sub-genre of the Cyberpunk current by the time and the general atmosphere. A world in decline where we pierce the moral of science and medicine! As said many times, the nanopunk comes directly from Biopunk , itself being a cyberpunk sub-genre. We can therefore conclude that the nanopunk is a sub-genre of the Cyberpunk universe! and yes, the punk currents are much more complex than it looks ... And this is only the beginning.
