/cult/ - culture and media

Ever since I opened up William Gibson's Neuromancer I was fascinated with the idea of mixing flesh with technology. The idea of going as far into these "Black Clinics" (Underground laboratories, clinics, and or hospitasl) to get the most cutting edge of treatments, and unregulated biological modifications is something I want to learn more about, follow developments in our world, and how to contribute.

This thread is meant to be a general for the idea for now. Post anything relating to modification and genetic manipulation.

are thin ties still socially acceptable for situations where you have to wear a suit?

I do a daily bible study 7 days a week and a nightly bible study m-f.
Night M-F: 7:30PM CST-US
Day: 1PM CST-US
https://twitch.tv/a7runaway

Its lofi, mostly takes place in terminal, music in the background, Dramatized NIV audio, arch linux, 900x540 res, and some nice music idk, i think this is the right board to share this…. sorry if i got it wrong.

Tonights Schedule ATM(more to be added):
Lords Prayer
Luke 4
Shine On Sweet Jesus - The Flaming Lips
Satan's Temptation of Christ Explained: A Verse-by-Verse Study of Luke 4:1-13 - True Riches Academy
Luke 5
Him - Lily Allen
Frustrations of a Worldly Christian - Joel Stevens
Luke 6
Luke 7
Lords Prayer

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/dark-tower-of-dreams-inside-the-walled-city-of-kowloon-1.4359114

There's a new radio doc on Kowloon courtesy of Ideas, a CBC radio program that does hour-long in-depth docs on various topics.

Electronic Music.
Post & Discuses.
Keep EDM to a minimal.

This movie is a little arthousey but I think a lot of people here might like it. Granted it is slow paced with long periods of silence. But daaaaaamn, is it ever gorgeous and creepy and haunting and downright Kubrickian at times. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWF0bBKhe6o

And it has an absolutely amazing score. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14EyZ-o3Uw

What would be /fa/ equivalent of Arisuchan ?

What's a better place than this to share my old track, right? Hope you like it.
Want to make more, but I don't think I'm in the right state of mind right now.

Iglooghost has a couple of insane new EPs out now. He hasn't even been in the IDM scene for 2 years and he's already on par with some of the greats if you ask me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHxN4Hs6r4

Have any of you guys heard him or his work previously? It's some good soykaf.

I'm fairly certain that everyone here has read at least Neuromancer (or knows the quotes/plot/tropes), but have you read the rest of the series or any of Gibson's other works? If you haven't given the rest of the Sprawl Trilogy a try yet, I recommend it. Count Zero gets ragged on quite a bit for being the weakest of the series, but your mileage may vary because I enjoyed it. I think Mona Lisa Overdrive is a stronger book than Neuromancer but not quite as influential. The writing in the first book feels a bit juvenile compared to the writing in MLO, and Gibson himself reflected on this in an interview. He said something to the effect of: "Neuromancer was a young man's tale."

I think a case can be made that the Sprawl Trilogy was Gibson's first, very basic ideas of what a cyberpunk world might actually look like. A lot of ideas about cyberpunk were updated and revised in the post-cyberpunk trilogy he wrote after it, the Bridge Trilogy. The Blue Ant Trilogy feels less like the cyberpunk of Neuromancer and much more like the cyberpunk of today.

The Sprawl Trilogy (Cyberpunk)
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

The quintessential classic. The cyberpunk tale that started it all. Like Gibson's other trilogies, the main cast changes with every book with a handful recurring characters making multiple appearances. The jump between Neuromancer and Count Zero can be a bit off-putting for people who really liked the first book, but the pay-off is worth it when you see all of the pieces fall into place.
>Neuromancer (1984)
>Count Zero (1986)
>Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)

Short Stories
>Burning Chrome (1986)
>New Rose Hotel (1981)
>Johnny Mnemonic (1981)

The Bridge Trilogy (Post-cyberpunk)
He has long since come to prefer her in silence. He no longer inserts the yellowing audio beads. He has learned to provide his own, whispering to her as he fast-forwards through the clumsy titles and up the moonlit ragged hiliscape of a place that is neither Hollywood nor Rio, but some soft-focus digital approximation of both.

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