Squidpunk
2008-07-06 | Filed under Calamari |
I can think of no more fitting way to kick off Squid Week ‘08 than with Jeff VanderMeer’s Squidpunk Manifesto:
Fiction that unlike New Weird, Steampunk, or Slipstream, is at its core not only about squid, but about the symbolism of squid as color-changing, highly-mobile, alien-looking, intelligent ocean-goers. As a powerful ecosystem indicator, the squid is a potent symbol for environmental rejuvenation. Squidpunk is almost exclusively set at sea and must contain some reference to either cephalopods or to anything that thematically relates to squid, in terms of world iconography and tropes. Squidpunk is never escapist or whimsical. It is always serious and edgy. This combination of a hard punk aesthetic with the fluid propulsion system common to the squid has produced a unique literary hybrid beloved by Mundanes and Surrealists alike.
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Now this is what I’ve been missing: arcane facts, strange interests, things I completely misunderstand. Thanks. It was just Jen Jordan with you gone.
Then you must check out the video at:
http://www.squidpunk.com !!!
JeffV
That’s fabulous.
Of course, visiting that page has the unfortunate side effect, thanks to the blurbs, of making me wonder what squid waffles would taste like. Squid is yummy, and waffles are yummy…