{"id":24797,"date":"2011-09-22T22:26:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T22:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/notes-toward-a-postcyberpunk-manifesto-by\/"},"modified":"2011-09-22T22:26:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T22:26:30","slug":"notes-toward-a-postcyberpunk-manifesto-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/notes-toward-a-postcyberpunk-manifesto-by\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto<br \/>\nby Lawrence Person<br \/>\n&ldquo;Critics, myself included, persist in label-mongering, despite all warnings; we must, because it&rsquo;s a valid source of insight-as well as great fun.&rdquo;<br \/>\n&#8211; Bruce Sterling, from the introduction to Mirrorshades <\/p>\n<p>Bud, from Neal Stephenson&rsquo;s The Diamond Age, is a classic cyberpunk protagonist. An aggressive, black-leather clad criminal loner with cybernetic body augmentations (including a neurolinked skull gun), Bud makes his living first as a drug runner&rsquo;s decoy, then by terrorizing tourists for money. <\/p>\n<p>All of which goes a long way toward explaining why his ass gets wasted on page 37 of a 455 page novel. <\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the postcyberpunk era.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/99\/10\/08\/2123255\/notes-toward-a-postcyberpunk-manifesto\">Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto &#8211; Slashdot<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto by Lawrence Person &ldquo;Critics, myself included, persist in label-mongering, despite all warnings; we must, because it&rsquo;s a valid source of insight-as well as great fun.&rdquo; &#8211; Bruce Sterling, from the introduction to Mirrorshades Bud, from Neal Stephenson&rsquo;s The Diamond Age, is a classic cyberpunk protagonist. An aggressive, black-leather clad criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6rX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}