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I've heard people refer to vaporwave as a critique of capitalism from very early on. Vaporwave has a lot of themes that reflect nostalgia for a future that was promised to us by 20th century capitalism such as malls, corporate aesthetics, 80s lifestyle advertising, etc.
In vaporwave these elements have then been recontextualized by the knowledge that we are in a future that didn't deliver on the promises of the past. There is a large sense of nostalgia that permeates the genre of vaporwave, and oftentimes this nostalgia is directed at this retro idea of what the future would be. Nostalgia for a time that never was, because it's nostalgia for retrofuturism, for the concept of a future that is not where we are now, but where we were intended to be, and where we were told we would be. There's also the cyberpunk influences, and a lot of cyberpunk started as a critique of global capitalism.
Nowadays, I'm not sure where vaporwave's relationship to capitalism stands, because as a genre it's evolved a lot since its inception. Do you think vaporwave is still a critique of capitalism? Do you think vaporwave ever was a critique of capitalism? Do you think it varies? let's talk about it.
In vaporwave these elements have then been recontextualized by the knowledge that we are in a future that didn't deliver on the promises of the past. There is a large sense of nostalgia that permeates the genre of vaporwave, and oftentimes this nostalgia is directed at this retro idea of what the future would be. Nostalgia for a time that never was, because it's nostalgia for retrofuturism, for the concept of a future that is not where we are now, but where we were intended to be, and where we were told we would be. There's also the cyberpunk influences, and a lot of cyberpunk started as a critique of global capitalism.
Nowadays, I'm not sure where vaporwave's relationship to capitalism stands, because as a genre it's evolved a lot since its inception. Do you think vaporwave is still a critique of capitalism? Do you think vaporwave ever was a critique of capitalism? Do you think it varies? let's talk about it.