Imagine Berlin in 2300 / AE330. Is it still a city or did it turn into desert ? Or jungle ? Is UdK still planning to relocate to Tempelhof ? Do foxes still roam the streets ? What about trans-🐩, domesticated 🦁 and the 🐄 Liberation Army ? Did chevalines substituted cars completely or are there still some weirdos thinking that loud four-wheels bugs are actually cool? Is LENA (Lidl-Edeka-Netto-Aldi) a true cooperative or is it controlled from behind the shadows by a mysterious AI which manifests by a magpie (Elster)?
And, most importantly: How does Berlin underground look like after 15 generations of Tresor, Sisyphos, Wilde Renate ... ?
Baroquepunk is a speculative genre where ornament, excess, and early-modern worldviews collide with systems thinking. Inspired by Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, it treats the Baroque era (1650 - 1750) not as premodern, but as a proto-information age: obsessed with networks, cryptography, finance, science, and power.
Where steampunk reimagines the 19th century through steam, gears, and industrial optimism, baroquepunk digs earlier—into allegory, absolutism, colonial flows, alchemy, and spectacle.
💧 Solarpunk is a speculative genre and cultural movement imagining desirable futures built on renewable energy, ecological repair, and social justice. Rooted in the ideas articulated in the Solarpunk Manifesto, it rejects dystopia as lazy inevitability and treats hope as a discipline.
💧 Schismatrix (1985) by Bruce Sterling is a foundational cyberpunk / post-cyberpunk novel set several centuries in the future, after humanity has spread throughout the Solar System.
Schismatrix traces shifting power structures, techno-political factions, and posthuman experiments across habitats, asteroid states, and orbital societies. The novel explores identity beyond the human, evolution as ideology, and the instability of any technological orthodoxy—making it a crucial bridge between cyberpunk, transhumanism, and later post-cyberpunk currents.