The technical term is "steampunk," and there's much more here, via David Frum.
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Steampunk is pretty popular nowadays. "The Golden Compass" is a recent example. Lots of videogames and Japanese anime feature it. This is the first time I've seen it in "real-life" arts and crafts.
A good video-game example of this style is Bioshock, a first person shooter set in an undersea Randian paradise done up in an Art Deco/Steampunk style complete with pneumatic tubes.
The game's a pretty slick indictment of objectivism to boot.
Compromise, rather than absolutism, has been the watchword of anti-abortion efforts for some time now. But the pro-life movement can't give up on overturning Roe without giving up on its very reason for being.
Forget the predatory lenders, Wall Street sharks and their government enablers: The current economic crisis, and the housing bubble that produced it, all started with George Bailey.
Steampunk is pretty popular nowadays. "The Golden Compass" is a recent example. Lots of videogames and Japanese anime feature it. This is the first time I've seen it in "real-life" arts and crafts.
Posted by Immoralist | December 14, 2007 1:42 AM