Punked Objects: Salvagepunk in Perdido Street Station and Crumbs
Brian Willems “The whole point of punk is not doing what you’re told to do.” — Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory Cyberpunk has become a neoliberal dream of technological ubiquity. Steampunk reinserts a romanticized sense of craftsmanship into the world. The term salvagepunk was coined by Evan Calder Williams to gather science fiction…