Tagged dystopian

New York Megacity Morning Verticality

RND/ To imagine psychographically exploring New York Megacity morning verticality.

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New Work Megacity Morning Verticality

– In which strange, cold, dark, brutalist feelings of ‘imposing emotional verticality’ dominate the experience of such spaces.

Ideal / Idealized Price for such a concept: £150K – contact Rob for details
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Cyberpunk Is Still Dead: L33t Amazon eBooks and Good-Bad RPG Concept Fan Art

RND/ to consider seriously l33t (try-hard) Cyberpunk eBooks from amazon and good-style bad concept fan art.

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Cyberpunk is dead: Bad Amazon eBooks

A 40 page novella for £4.99 and zero content preview available, allowing human beings to “link themselves to the age of arts and literature” – apparently complete with “analysis, meaning and association” inside? Sorry but not bloody likely, mirror-shaded techn0boy.

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Cyberpunk is dead: RPG character Noriaa

Ah, dear miserable loney Norria – with your odd, slightly shrivelled left cybernetic arm, your ‘nasal super filters’ and ‘magnetic feet pads’ – still (for some reason) blindly / faithfully sticking to Cyberpunk’s long since abandoned dystopian trash as if it were remotely cool (read non ironically ‘edgy and hardcore’) – and not far more simply ‘good-bad’ (aka Kitsch.)

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Creepy Portraits of Deep Fake A.I People: “This Algorithm Exists”

RND/ to consider conceptually creepy art portraits of non-existent people computer generated by evil near-future graphics card manufacturers using advanced neural networks & machine learning

3840×3840, 2.8MB .jpg edited in Gimp, generated via thispersondoesnotexist.com

– To note however, that such people are not in fact people but algorithms, and that unlike pseudo-people do in fact exist and express real identity – that is, an often dangerous sociopolitical efficacy

And yet, one should be wary of taking such emergent / stuck on mathematical smiles at face value (minor tumorous outgrowths and weird skin folds notwithstanding) because right now ‘they’ are probably working in strict tandem with large faceless metacorps to silently and efficiently fuck you over in various, blandly terrifyingly-smart ways

Have a nice day; it’s your duty

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