I also think this is it. I have a couple of friends that buy these kind of products, and they are also the only gym goers I know. So for my tiny sample it’s an absolute one to one correlation.
adding “arts” to STEM is akin to “but all lives matter”
It most certainly is not.
but that’s not what we’re talking about
I’m talking about a particular genre or theme I made up out of a word play. What are you talking about? And, more importantly, how including Arts with STEM is on the level of white supremacist dog whistles?
You’re free to make STEMpunk a thing if you want. That would be fun, ironically that would be slightly on line with creating ‘all lives matter’ to oppose BLM.
I’m not sure, current or very-near-future inspired tech + Current or near future (higher because it’s rising) inequality + Punk, as in rebellious, anti-authoritarian, DIY spirit…
As I said in another comment, I don’t know exactly how to define it, or even if it should have a definition so strict as to define the exact time, could be more or less futuristic. But I think I could do the opposite, I’d know if something is STEAMpunk when I see it.
Maybe a subset of the sci fi could be, but most of it isn’t very punk. Belters in the expanse could fit a spacepunk theme. Star Wars or Star Trek are not punk at all even if some species or characters could be considered so, they’re usually portrayed as the baddies and the main theme is quite the opposite.
It wasn’t me. But personally I think it’s nice the A is there. Punk is inherently a bit artsy already, but you can take it up a notch still.
I thought about the word play before the actual meaning of the term I try to coin, so I don’t have it really well defined. Maybe modern times are starting to be a bit STEAMpunk, and it could became more so. With the attack on science, education, health care, infrastructure… might be a rise in massive backyard telescopes (they exist, astropunk as fuck), basement medical labs, underground universities, communities taking it in their on hands and repairing roads or even upgrading the potholes with sculptures or fountains and they’re now pedestrian only streets, DIYing solar trams/street cars… I think all of these fit the STEAMpunk theme.
Yes, some hard sci-fi could be I think. There’s some tech-punk/cyberpunk, but what about sciencepunk? Biopunk, geopunk… might there be some, but is particle-physicspunk a thing? Mathpunk? And all STEAM-punk at the same time? Not debating, the thought came literally in the shower, like I don’t even have the meaning very clearly thought out, so I would be very curious if you have any suggestion you think can fit.
Back in my day we called ‘software that silently downloads and installs on your computer without your intervention or consent’ a computer virus. We would have said ‘LG monitors install viruses on your pc’ and it would’ve been kind of a big deal. Fuck, now I feel old.