Not to sound skeptical, but is there another way of viewing it?
The new Pretorian Guard, a guild tending the computing machinery for the pedestrian cause of concentrating control tools of the capital, needed its mythology, and cyberpunk was born. Historically speaking, there is no evidence of spontaneity in the recent cultural, ehm, movements:
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86S00588R000300380001-5.PDF https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/finks-by-joel-whitney/
*As a cyberpunk ideologue, I’m touched that this subject would come up on nettime. As it happens, I know where all the cyberpunks are. At the moment, they’re in London, San Francisco, Vancouver, Providence, Austin, Raleigh, Los Gatos, Seattle, and the village of Nottingham, New Hampshire.
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