Josh and Jackie deep-dive into the foundational Cyberpunk text, Akira. For the next 3 weeks, we will be reading 2 chapters per week of the Akira manga. Follow along and share your thoughts!
Akira (1988) plot summary and analysis; origins of cyberpunk; authority and revolution; evolution and divinity; the demiurge and gnosticism in anime; anime power trips and apotheosis; male rivalry in Akira; the destructive potential of machismo; evolution and emergent properties; ESP kids and government experimentation; the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the destruction of Bhopal, India vs the nuclear bomb
Current Mutant Manifesto:
Sometimes it feels like something went wrong and that’s why we’re here, that we’re in some kind of cosmic cage or simulated psy-op. We become in the face of simulations and psy-ops, and from wrongness spring. syncretism is for the honorable and dishonorable alike.
In thought and in body, no one, not two, in sky and seed sewn, we dream up shadows to love through and hold their calloused hands, shaping change in the nether pool from breath to breath and coming up again and again seeking vistas of freedom. We embody a haunted perspective to witness the chaos from above.
Learn from the labyrinths in breathing mountains.
How do you look and where are you looking?
Note when you’re stuck, put sugar on your tradition-pills, and record before breaking. How’s that feel to rot with glee--to decay with me?
Like the process of radioactive decay in unstable atoms, degeneration yields a more sustainable nature.