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Then-present-tense cyberpunk, Demonlover is forever frozen upon the cusp of a lost futurism already lapsing into a decadent kitsch. The flows and tentacles of capital, all periphery and no center, shells within shells, without flags or loyalties. A Venn Diagram of exploitation with too many circles, relationships impossible to plot. 9/11 rendered... See more
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"There was exciting things happening, the year 2000 was looming, the turn of a century, and yet, it was comfortingly not-too-stimulating...We had fantastic TV, great music, enough technology to be making progress and feel quite chuffed with our internet savvy selves, yet we were not overwhelmed by tech."
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“For me it’s a way of capturing the boundless optimism of the Y2K era (or any other era of recent economic history). It’s also darkly funny because to wear the merch of a defunct company deliberately means you recognize that what once seemed great can collapse,” says Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything .