![]() The Steampunk subculture is known for romanticizing the style of the Victorian era and combining the sophisticated and elegant aesthetic with uncovered and visible machinery, known as open-faced clockwork. Photo by Tyrus Flynn – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Man dressed in a Victorian inspired jacket with a mechanical right arm and a holding a cane. Steampunk appreciation is not limited to any age, race, gender, or class, ensuring a large variety of participants with diverse backgrounds, and the increase in ideas about steampunk makes for an even more vibrant and full-bodied subculture. Steampunk has developed into a global phenomenon, made possible due to the openness and overall welcoming nature of this particular brand of subcultural science fiction. The reverence for past history within the subculture focuses on the idea of a universe in which the power of steam was never eclipsed by petroleum energy, resulting in an entirely alternative future to the one we experience today (which aligns more with the cyberpunk image of the future). Originally, the idea behind steampunk developed in the 1900’s as part of science fiction literature, distinguishing itself from the computer-loving cyberpunks of the genre by focusing on clockwork mechanisms and nineteenth century machinery and style. If that premise doesn’t sound absolutely amazing, nothing else will. In other words: Steampunk is set in a past that never happened and a future that will never be. The subculture takes place in an alternate reality during a Victorian era that never ended and developed into a new form of modernity called ‘retrofuture’ (a future imagined from a 1800’s perspective) combined with the adventurous, gun slinging character of the American Wild West. ![]() Steampunk is the lovechild of the Victorian era, the Wild West, and steam powered science fiction. Lincoln Steampunk Festival 2015 cc-by-sa/2.0 – © Richard Croft – /p/4637399 Woman dressed in a modernized Victorian style dress with da Vinci inspired set of mechanic wings. Commodification, Diffusion, and Defusion. ![]() Mapping the Landscape of Sexual Deviance.Toggle navigation Subcultures and Sociology Grinnell College
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