Jha, when you used the phrase "injection of tech" it suddenly struck me that a fruitful way of talking about politicization and radicalization might be through a closer examination of the "steam" part of steampunk -- that is, taking a much closer look at the actual nitty-gritty of the steam engine, how one is actually constructed, the history of its development and elaboration, and then making explicit (or 'unpacking' by your leave [grin]) the analogical connections it has with punk as a sociological phenomenon. The technical terminologies overlap for "steam" and "punk" -- take 'injection' (of steam or water into a hydraulic system; of drugs into a vein or a comment into a political conversation -- of oneself into a 'situation', for that matter) -- analyzing what exactly happens when something is 'injected' into something else (is 'puncturing' an essential initial stage of 'injection'? Does injection necessarily require the use of a phallic-shaped instrument? etc.). Math can be drawn in as well: injective, surjective, and bijective functions. The 'ject' root and its etymologies...
Anyhow, perhaps this will spark something -- a verb I wouldn't have been so quick to pick, I suppose, in a steam-oriented world -- for me it's lost its connection with its roots in fire (it's been deracinated) and totally co-opted by the running dogs of internal combustion...
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Date: 2011-07-12 07:52 am (UTC)Anyhow, perhaps this will spark something -- a verb I wouldn't have been so quick to pick, I suppose, in a steam-oriented world -- for me it's lost its connection with its roots in fire (it's been deracinated) and totally co-opted by the running dogs of internal combustion...
All the best,
John