01 inspiration archive.
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02 cyberpunk-driven.
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03 i live in the physical.
04 i work in the matrix.
04 i think about the interface between both.
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06 biotech / neural links / neon rituals.
07 transmissions from the neon void.
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10 // the street finds its own uses for things.
11 — william gibson
$ ls library/ --sort=essential
the texts that rewired my brain. each one a different port into the same sprawl.
neuromancer
the book that started it all. case, a washed-up hacker, gets one last job jacking into cyberspace. gibson didn't just predict the internet — he gave it a soul. the sprawl trilogy begins here.
do androids dream of electric sheep?
in a decaying earth, bounty hunter deckard retires androids. but the line between human and machine dissolves with every kill. empathy becomes the last frontier. the seed that grew into blade runner.
snow crash
hiro protagonist — hacker, pizza deliveryman — discovers a virus that crashes both computers and human minds. the metaverse was born here, before silicon valley tried to build it for real.
count zero
three stories converge in the sprawl — a corporate mercenary, an art dealer, and a kid who flatlines jacking in. voodoo gods in the matrix. the AI from neuromancer has fractured into something stranger.
mona lisa overdrive
the sprawl trilogy's finale. four lives collide around a mysterious box containing a consciousness. the boundaries between meat and data dissolve for good. the matrix becomes something alive.
the diamond age
a subversive interactive book falls into the hands of a street kid in a nanotech future. education as revolution. class warfare through technology. stephenson's most humane cyberpunk.
the shockwave rider
a fugitive hacker constantly reinvents his identity in a networked surveillance state. written before the internet existed, it predicted worms, phishing, and identity theft. proto-cyberpunk at its purest.
blindsight
a crew of post-humans — a vampire, a linguist with multiple personalities, a soldier — encounter alien intelligence. questions whether consciousness itself is an evolutionary dead end.
$ ls cinema/ --sort=year
movies are our shared hallucinations. hackers, outlaws, and posthuman dreams flickering in chrome and shadow.
blade runner
the og cyberpunk — noir, neon, and replicants in dystopian LA. ridley scott built the visual language every cyberpunk work since has borrowed from.
robocop
corporate control, cyborg justice, and brutal satire. verhoeven's masterpiece of privatized dystopia is more relevant every year.
akira
post-apocalyptic neo-tokyo, psychic teens, and animation that still hasn't been surpassed. the film that opened the west's eyes to anime.
tetsuo: the iron man
japanese industrial horror-cyberpunk — weird, raw, unforgettable. a man slowly transforms into a walking scrapyard. tsukamoto's fever dream.
the lawnmower man
virtual reality experiments gone wrong. early 90s CG fever dream about intelligence amplification and digital transcendence.
ghost in the shell
philosophy, hacking, and stunning animation — a pillar of the genre. what does it mean to be human when your body is a shell and your ghost is data?
johnny mnemonic
keanu storing data in his brain — pure 90s cyberpunk cheese. adapted from gibson's short story. the internet as a VR landscape. beautiful camp.
strange days
illegal VR memories + end-of-the-millennium paranoia. bigelow's underrated vision of experience-as-commodity. the black market of consciousness.