Black Academia

“I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they’re here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.”

— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Cyberpunk Media

I need shit to watch to get me in the mood to write.. here’s a few lists:

Cyberpunk Films

Escape from New York (1981)

Blade Runner (1982)

Tron (1982)

Videodrome (1983)

The Terminator (1984)

Robocop (1987)

Total Recall (1990)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Demolition Man (1993)

Hackers (1995)

Judge Dredd (1995)

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Strange Days (1995)

The Fifth Element (1997)

The Matrix (1999)

Avalon (2001)

The Animatrix (2003)

Paycheck (2003)

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Elysium (2013)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Ready Player One (2018)

Upgrade (2018)

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Anime

Megazone 23 (OVA, 1985)

Bubblegum Crisis (OVA, 1987)

Akira (film, 1988)

Appleseed (OVA, 1988)

Ghost In The Shell (film, 1995)

Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

Serial Experiments Lain (series, 1998)

Cowboy Bebop (series, 1998)

Metropolis (2001)

Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex (series, 2002-05)

Texhnolyze (series, 2003)

Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence (film, 2004)

Ergo Proxy (series, 2006)

Paprika (film, 2006)

Ghost In The Shell: S.A.C. - Solid State Society (film, 2006)

Psycho-Pass (series, 2012)

Ghost In The Shell: Arise (series, 2013-15)

Ghost In The Shell: Arise - The Movie (2016)

TV Shows

Total Recall 2070 (1999)

Dark Angel (2000-2002)

Dollhouse (2009-2010)

Person of Interest (2012-2016)

Almost Human (2013-2014)

Mr. Robot (2015)

Westworld (2016)

Altered Carbon (2018)

Love, Death & Robots (2019)

Video Games

Due to popular demand I have compiled a list of Cyberpunk Video Games. Come to think of it, video games may be the best possible way to view Cyberpunk stories.

The Screamer (1985)

Imitation City (1987)

Neuromancer (1988)

Snatcher (1988)

Flashback (1992)

Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure (1993)

Shadowrun (1995-2015)

Syndicate (1993-2012)

Beneath A Steel Sky (1994)

System Shock (1994)

Einhänder (1996)

Osman (1996)

Final Fantasy VII (1997)

Xenogears (1998)

Deus Ex (2000-2016)

Oni (2001)

Uplink: Hacker Elite (2001)

Neocron (2002)

Enter The Matrix (2003)

Dystopia (2005)

System Rush (2005)

Borderlands (2009)

Mirror’s Edge (2009)

Borderlands 2 (2012)

Cypher (2012)

Gemini Rue (2013)

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013)

Remember Me (2013)

Watch Dogs (2014)

2064: Read Only Memories (2015)

Technobabylon (2015)

Dex (2015)

VA-11 HALL-A (2015)

Watch Dogs 2 (2016)

>OBSERVER_ (2017)

Ruiner (2017)

The Red Strings Club (2018)

Astral Chain (2019)

Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)

Tabletop Games

Cyberpunk 2020 (1988)

Shadowrun (1989)

GURPS Cyberpunk (1990)

Corporation (2009)

The Sprawl (2016)

Rob Stanier

Pentax Me : 35mm film “Nocturne”

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All I Need in This Life of Sin

Choose people that choose you. The end.

Who else spends Christmas Eve alone today? Join the Club!

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

excerpt from Plato’s Symposium, trans. Anne Carson

when we wake up and see things as they are, it feels like being sober at a party full of drunks.

- don miguel ruiz