Vaporwave

Table of Contents:

• Vaporwave is Baudrillardian.

  • Ways in which vaporwave is Baudrillardian
  • Ferraro’s philosophical influences at the time were explicity Baudrillardian roots

• Vaporwave is postmodern.

  • Vaporwave reappropriates; samples; detourns; parodies
    • Corporate aesthetics, muzak, R&B

• Vaporwave carries the post-cyberpunk torch of Baudrillardian analysis.

• Alternate visions of vaporwave; vaporwave now is very different to what it used to be

• nostalgia porn

• derrida, fisher; hauntology

• baudrillard, cyberpunk, retrofuturism

• corporate aesthetics

• irony, pastiche, parody, sampling, reappropriation

• 80s, cocaine chic

• american psycho

• hippos in tanks; james ferraro, daniel lopatin, dean blunt

• https://eldritchdata.neocities.org/MISC/Vaporwave-ADifferentKindOfCyberpunk

• https://dmy.co/news/adam-harper-vaporwave

• “Aesthetically vaporwave is just a distributed imitation of James Ferraro’s brand. Its mindnumbing arbitrariness could be easily be mass produced in the near future by ML - they’re more unironically muzak than they realize.”

• “I’m talking about content creation, not art. The vaporwave process is simply a curation of certain historical subgenres, slowed and bass adjusted. It’s muzak only elevated by subcultural specificity.”