Drop Shoulder T-Shirt (Pulse of the Machine: Eye of the beholder)

Pulse of the Machine:
‘Cyberpunk’ cities are vast collages; here strange and often shocking juxtapositions await on every corner. The future folded into the past, and vice versa. Cities are like compost heaps, just layers and layers of stuff. The vertigo of accelerating change, the dizzying spectacle of globalized media, the feeling of being drowned in consumer goods with barely a shelf life before obsolescence. Disjointed imagery always has the power because life is disjointed and because we are. Cyberpunk turns those messy feelings into a place, where it’s no longer necessary to resist the splintering pressures of society because the fight’s over and we lost. All that’s left is to submit to the carnival of sensations. There is a relief in that, even a feeling of oneness. Think of the monologue Roy Batty delivers at the end of ‘Blade Runner’ (1982):

‘All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.’

While there is angst in this line of thinking, there is also a blissful feeling of surrender. Voyaging through this strange sea of thoughts; part of me is calmed by my insignificance, by the teardrop of my life being lost in the downpour of time.

Artist: Mr. Hossen.