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brooks

@brooksrocco.bsky.social

Midway through Severance S02E09 I realized the cinematography is just technogoth Wes Anderson

March 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM

Abe Goldfarb

@abegoldfarb.bsky.social

The 4K of SPAWN is some kind of dumbass miracle. The worst CGI you’ve ever seen and luscious old-school Guillermo Navarro cinematography, smashed together at eye-watering resolution looking like a print still wet from the lab.

Technogoth nerd shit. THE CROW for incels. I cherish it.

January 9, 2026 at 4:15 AM

🌳 Silvicultrix 🌳

@silvicultrix.bsky.social

Glitch Witch by Silvicultrix

From the Album:
Glitch Witch

#dark #music #electro
#technogoth #witchcore #techno

silvicultrixofficial.bandcamp.com/track/glitch...

Glitch Witch, by Silvicultrix

from the album Glitch Witch

silvicultrixofficial.bandcamp.com

November 30, 2024 at 12:10 AM

😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸

@hugothepinkcat.bsky.social

How to prevent a future Chlorinecon from every happening again:

1- Make Technogoth cool again

2- Make it the theme of your convention

January 4, 2024 at 12:04 AM

Evelyn Waughluigi

@mattressisland.bsky.social

there was just something in the air in the late 90s that made everyone want to be a technogoth

January 29, 2026 at 12:13 AM

🌳 Silvicultrix 🌳

@silvicultrix.bsky.social

Babydoll by Silvicultrix

From the Album:

Babydoll’s Electric Bedtime in Nightmare Land

#electro #witchcore
#technogoth #goth #gothic #music

silvicultrixofficial.bandcamp.com/track/babydoll

Babydoll, by Silvicultrix

from the album Chapter 1: Babyboll's Electric Bedtime in Nightmare Land (The "Vinyl" 45)

silvicultrixofficial.bandcamp.com

December 6, 2024 at 5:35 PM

DocBray Is Thinking About Clouds

@docbray.wafflesky.com

Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamie!!!!!

#AEWCollision

a group of people are dancing in a park and one of them is wearing a purple dress .

Alt: Infamous technogoth rave dancing scene from the underpass

media.tenor.com

November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM

That’s a Coyote 🫐

@somesortofyote.bsky.social

Technogoth will live again

May 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM

Kastor

@kastor.sh

and the 15th technogoth mask model

December 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM

UltraViolence 🔞🍆

@falconfox.bsky.social

Technogoth should never have died everybody looks hotter in a respirator.

May 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM

brendan

@catfacts.dev

i am just a technogoth at heart tbh

October 16, 2023 at 3:19 AM

Artgorithme

@artgorithme.bsky.social

Mechanical Prophet
#Cyberpunk #DarkSciFi #Futuristic #Dystopian #AI #DigitalArt #Midjourney #TechnoGoth #Surreal #Mecha #Minimalist #RedHorizon

Prophète Mécanique
Portrait énigmatique d'une entité cybernétique encapuchonnée, son visage métallique orné de détails mécaniques complexes, se détachant sur un ciel rouge intense.
Mysterious portrait of a hooded cybernetic entity, its metallic face adorned with intricate mechanical details, standing against an intense red sky.

February 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM

Rex Thrillho

@evanbrady.bsky.social

Look, we all know the solution is stunningly obvious: Kevin Feige standing outside Edgar Wright's window with a boombox above his head blasting some industrial technogoth dance music with a sign saying FORGIVE ME around his neck

October 23, 2024 at 2:00 AM

Guidethyhand ✨ Comms Open 🎂

@guidethyhand.bsky.social

Self indulgent Jonah for me and him- since he does not own the gear to look this cool #guidethyhandoc #industrialgoth #technogoth #hesalotofthingsok

April 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM

PuChiPi 🔞 alt

@puchipix.bsky.social

Ok NOW I'm caught up!
Even more stream drawings with @ultilix.bsky.social @felino.bsky.social & @lettuce.blue
(Feat. Parabelle, Patiko and Brimm
Snipely & Biglou
Alex the Axolotl & Alterea Windsong
Miranda Wright & Mist)

#nsfw #ocart #streamart

Red-haired, human, alchemist woman Parabelle and green parrot, travelling merchant Patiko kiss and fuck on the road while Brimm, Parabelle's enchanted hat, watches and looks disgusted by their actions.

Snipely, a short, round bird man dressed for winter simultaneously plows and sucks the brawn to his brains, Biglou, whose skintight suit has been unzipped, exposing his turtle bits to his partner in crime (and maybe more?)

Alterea, a female avian with orange hair tied in a braid is nude and sits atop Alex, looking shocked to realize her sex partner is fast asleep.

Miranda the chubby samoyed police officer is cuffed to the wall and collared by a high-tech laser collar normally belonging to Mist the Technogoth, who has traded for Miranda's hat. The two are also scissoring while Mist gropes the cop and presses her foot against her own, only to further Miranda's embarrassment.

February 26, 2026 at 4:27 PM

𝕮𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝕸𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖞

@cassidydayes.bsky.social

Creamfields/baby ravers vibes vs. industrial and dark techno in the London Underground.

Left is cute. Adorable, even. Aww.
Right is where I belong.

#industrialtechno #techno #ravers #babyravers #creamfields #animalcrossing #acnh #acnhgoth #technogoth #acnhgothcore #gothcore

August 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM

Wildwheel's Hat

@wildwheelshat.bsky.social

Stockholm is a proper decent city. Have a wander around. Go check out their museums. One of them had big knitted rude bits in them when I went and a section on technogoth fashion.

May 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM

Veldrin

@veldrin.bsky.social

made it to the con
#PiesofK

The Black Rabbit Brotherhood from Lies of P - A group of criminals dressed up in kinda grimy steampunky vaguely technogoth looking outfits, all wearing some variation of a rabbit mask.

June 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM

synapsid

@synapsid.wtf

no, i mean what the actual Matrix glitches would look like. not the cool, 1999 cyberpunk leather technogoth style stuff in the movie. i mean our shitty world and something actually fucking breaking if it was a simulation and just looking Wrong

May 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM

Martin Z

@pxtl.ca

Share yourself in your goth fit or a goth you can appreciate.

...

--> Me doing accidental technogoth because total eclipse in jacket weather.

A dark haired man (Martin) in a dark charcoal grey jacket and pants and a dark green shirt wearing eclipse classes laying on grass and a blanket decorated with ladybugs.

April 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM

CyberTaters

@potato.software

#PotatoGargoyle #NeonGargoyle #GargoyleArt #GothicPotatopunk #TechnoGoth #NeonGothic #MechanicalGothic #DigitalGargoyle #UrbanGargoyle #StoneAndSteel #FuturisticGothic #SynthwaveCreature #PotatoCreatureArt #GargoyleAesthetic #NeonGuardian #GothicSciFiArt
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1835...

September 15, 2026 at 11:08 AM

Tao Neuendorffer

@taonf.bsky.social

I like to think of #cyberpunk as
rock 'n' roll fiction. It has replaced the teeth-grinding intensity I used to get listening to rock music
#Mondo2000 issue 05 (1991)
One finds fractal situations—things that can be analyzed down to fractals
archive.org/details/Mond...

MONDO 2000: Glenn, your piece "Freeform" is dedicated to Rudolph von Bitter Rucker. It's a shimmering, pastel work for orchestra, driven by vibraphones and glockenspiels—not exactly the soundtrack I hear in my head when I'm reading Rucker's novels!

GLENN BRANCA: Well, I had already named the piece "Freeform" when I discovered that Rucker had founded the "freestyle" movement in science fiction. Since I love everything that Rucker writes, it was a happy coincidence. Beyond that, there isn't the slightest connection between my music and my interest in cyberpunk writing. I came to cyberpunk through the mathematical ideas I was exploring in my composing. I was looking for books on mathematics and one of the books I discovered was Rucker's Infinity and the Mind.
Rucker's writing is cartoony but very fluid. You see, I wasn't reading fiction at all when I got into Rudy Rucker. The fact is, I don’t like fiction! Only cyberpunk actually deals with contemporary culture in a way that I can relate to. I like to think of it as rock 'n' roll fiction. It has replaced the teeth-grinding intensity I used to get listening to rock music.

ES: Cyberpunk is actually the only political literature being written these days, and it's always sympathetic to marginalized subcultures. It comes from the underdog's perspective. If there's one recurrent theme in cyberpunk, it's this idea of taking technology out of the hands of the techno-fascists, of networking on unofficial levels.

James Joyce, Proto-Cyberpunk

M2: Who do you two feel are the proto-cyberpunks in literary history? For my money, there are four authors—all of them outside the science fiction continuum, strictly speaking—who blazed the trail for cyberpunk: William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, J.G. Ballard, and more recently,
Don DeLillo.

GB: Burroughs and Pynchon, certainly, but I would have added Norman Spinrad and Dick.

ES: Burroughs and Pynchon, absolutely, and I would really have to add Joyce to that list.

ES: Isn't that what we're really looking forward to—the book that we can't imagine? I keep wondering when a work of art will come along that will introduce me to a new way of thinking

Slamming the Cyberpunks

GB: There's an amazing scene happening in England, revolving around a group of young cyberpunk writers—people like Charles Mondo Stross, who calls his work "technogoth," and Lyle Hopwood, a female writer who recently moved to the States, and Glenn Grant, a young Canadian who publishes a Montreal-based fiction magazine called Edge Detector.
And then there's Alligator Alley, which is supposedly a collaboration between Jeter and a cartoonist named Ferret, under the pseudonyms Dr. Adder and Mink Mole. [Actually written by Tim Ferret—ed.] If cyberpunk is going to lead somewhere that isn't cyberpunk, this is one direction it could take

AUPRES DE MOI LE DATA-DELUGE!

M2: Doesn't it strike you as odd that, while our culture is drowning in this data deluge, we as individuals seem to thrive on information overload?

ES: The need to be constantly stimulated is modern life, but it's also human. A nerve impulse has its effect for only so long before the infocaine wears off

GB: What's vital about cyberpunk, to my mind, is this idea of the underground network. I mean, most of the interesting cyberpunk stuff deals with the alternative network-hackers and artists and musicians, renegades who are living outside of consensus reality. For me, the best extrapolations from this culture have been Peter Lamborn Wilson's pirate nation-state, Port Watson, in the short piece of the same name; Glenn Grant's techno-nomads in his story "Mimetic Drift," Misha's dystopian art world in Red Spider, White Web; and Pat Murphy's city of artists in The City, Not Long After

This anti-society already exists all over the country, not just in the urban centers. Cyberpunk novelists are doing exactly what the new wave writers were doing in the 60s

M2: The silicon underground has become a reality

ES: Bearing in mind where you and I hook into all of this: Why hasn't music kept pace with these developments?

GB: I don't think I've ever heard a musical analog for cyberpunk literature

ES: You hear something and say, "Do I make the connection because I've been told it exists or do I make the connection because it's actually there?" Sonic Youth called themselves "cyberpunk" at one point

GB: In Dane Rudhyar's The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, he imagines a techno-mystical hyper-instrument called the Cosmophonon, a field of energy forces which is "played" by touching various colored crystals. The music is all-encompassing for the player and the listener

A Little Po-Apoc Night Music

ES: Did you read Memories of Whiteness, by Kim Stanley Robinson? About this human colony where language is based on musical analogies and musical terms

A story by Cordwainer Smith called "Under Old Earth" revolves around music and the rebel underground in a post-apocalypse, post-history New York, an underground culture of subversives that has rituals where they play Einsturzende Neubaten-type music, banging on metal in odd meters, all 5s and 7s

M2: There's a treatment of cyber-rock in John Shirley's "Freezone," in Mirrorshades

GB: That's from his novel Eclipse, in which the main character is a musician named Rickenharp. Shirley sings with the guitarist Michael Chocholak, husband of Misha, who happens to be a great cyberpunk writer. He made soundtracks for Alligator Alley and Red Spider, White Web

If you like Shirley's writing and you know Rickenharp, you'll like the music, because it really is the soundtrack that goes with his books. Strangely enough, the music, although somewhat anachronistic, is appropriate. What is the proper modern music to accompany cyberpunk? Is it some futuristic-sounding electronic beep-boop music or what?
Lucius Shepard, who is very, very into music, has written a "recommended" list. Hypno Love Wheel was on it, as well as Gaye Bikers on Acid

$GB: And then there's fractal music Eat Your Fractals, George ES: The musical illusion of a never-ending cycle, descending & then ascending, over & over again. It's not a bad aural analogy for a Mandlebrot set, but Fractals are an analogy to a natural form and function, whereas fractal music is an impression of an analogy of natural phenomena. A mathematical equation can only offer an abstraction, an idealized picture of this natural form and function Chaos: Not Just A Good Idea… GB: But I don't think we have to have an actual, real-life analog for cyberpunk fiction. We can only live in it in the writing itself ES: If we had implants, we could just go direct-brain to CD CB: Sure, and it would probably sound like a mess! Laughter ES: Well, maybe. The brain isn't delineated into these neat little sections, contrary to pop psych right brain/left brain models. It's a very large-scale integrative system. There's order, there's chaos, there's intuition, and there's formality, all operating simultaneously M2: Does chaos theory resonate with either of your musics? ES: My music was always about that even before I knew about chaos theory because I always liked the idea of that borderline where things get… funny GB: James Gleick's book, Chaos, only gave you the surface. The reason I liked Infinity and the Mind was that it actually led me into higher mathematics, to places I had never gone, especially transcendental numbers ES: Does God Play Dice?: The Mathematics of Chaos, by lan Stewart, contains a better description of chaos than the Gleick book Down the Brain-Drain, or Cogito Ergo Sump GB: If there's ever an analog for the human brain, it will require a computer that works at light speed ES: Because the brain is not a digital machine. I'm reading Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynmann. He would look at a problem and rather than getting down to any equations, he would imagine models in the real world, going right to whether or not something made sense intuitively$