Baroquepunk, Steampunk & co.

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.