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by boopity2025 276 days ago
• Why our cyberpunk future stayed frozen in 1980s style Akira Japan: genre inertia + a safe, marketable form of techno-Orientalism. • Why Neo-Shanghai is missing: China market incentives (censorship), reality outpacing fiction (surveillance as infrastructure), and creators avoiding a fresh round of Orientalism. • The new Jews aka the old Chinese.