Why Steampunk (still) Matters

Posted by on June 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Figure 1. The Singer Building Under Construction. The Singer, funded by revenues from the sale of sewing machines, is the tallest building ever peaceably demolished. This beautiful Beaux Arts gem was torn down to build an anonymous office tower that is most notable for housing the offices of NASDAQ and Goldman Sachs. Is this progress?

“There is nothing better than imagining other worlds . . . to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.” Umberto Eco, Baudolino I administer one of the largest (virtual) communities of self-identified steampunks, Steampunk Facebook. [...]

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