What cyberpunk work (movie, book, tv show, etc.) would you say is the most “punk”? What has the best non-conformist middle-finger-to-authority “punk” feel?
I mean, it’s obviously Hackers, right? Nothing says “punk rock” like roller blading down the streets of NYC. Or maybe something more gritty like Hardware, with a cameo from Iggy Pop?
Obviously those are terrible examples. I was just trying to think of which cyberpunk work really captures the punk part of cyberpunk and I can’t think of any really good examples. I’m sure there’s something obvious I’m forgetting though.
Not an entire work, but I thought the character in the book Mona Lisa Overdrive who had misc brain/nerve damage and created strange robotic sculptures in the rural warehouse he was squatting at, with robot names like ‘the judge’ and ‘the witch’, was super punk. especially the climax of his plot line (no spoilers). It was very analogous to punk musicians creating aggressive anti-authority music in a trashed out garage.