Steampunk | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2019-03-26

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00:02:14 1 History
00:02:23 1.1 Precursors
00:03:44 1.2 Origin of the term
00:05:25 1.3 Modern steampunk
00:07:12 1.4 Relationships to retrofuturism, DIY craft and making
00:08:09 2 Art, entertainment, and media
00:08:19 2.1 Art and design
00:14:00 2.2 Fashion
00:16:05 2.3 Literature
00:21:40 2.3.1 Steampunk settings
00:21:49 2.3.1.1 Alternative world
00:24:17 2.3.1.2 American West
00:24:54 2.3.1.3 Fantasy and horror
00:25:57 2.3.1.4 Post-apocalyptic
00:27:25 2.3.1.5 Victorian
00:30:44 2.3.1.6 Asian (silkpunk)
00:31:36 2.4 Music
00:33:43 2.5 Television and films
00:40:12 2.6 Video games
00:43:04 2.7 Toys
00:43:23 3 Culture and community
00:45:37 3.1 Social events
00:49:57 4 See also



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Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Although its literary origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a future during which steam power has maintained mainstream usage, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. However, steampunk and Neo-Victorian are different in that the Neo-Victorian movement does not extrapolate on technology while technology is a key aspect of steampunk.Steampunk most recognizably features anachronistic technologies or retrofuturistic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Such technology may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or of the modern authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen Hunt, and China Miéville. Other examples of steampunk contain alternative-history-style presentations of such technology as steam cannons, lighter-than-air airships, analogue computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.Steampunk may also incorporate additional elements from the genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction, alternate history, or other branches of speculative fiction, making it often a hybrid genre. The first known appearance of the term steampunk was in 1987, though it now retroactively refers to many works of fiction created as far back as the 1950s or 1960s.Steampunk also refers to any of the artistic styles, clothing fashions, or subcultures that have developed from the aesthetics of steampunk fiction, Victorian-era fiction, art nouveau design, and films from the mid-20th century.  Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.