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		<title>By: AR</title>
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		<description>Have you ever seen this?:  http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/inside/

Ann &amp; Jeff Vandermeer recently published an anthology as well:  http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2008/05/08/steampunk-get-your-fresh-brass-goggled-steampunk-antho-here/

I will also take this opportunity to promote a band:  http://www.unextraordinarygentlemen.com/
The singer and I used to hang out before he moved to L.A.

I&#039;m kind of wary of the whole thing, only because I think the term is getting applied a bit too liberally.  It&#039;s also dangerously close to becoming mere fetish w/o any kind of theory behind it.  Admittedly, the Steampunk Mag folks seem pretty invested in that end of things.
But I dislike films like &lt;i&gt;Brazil&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;City of Lost Children&lt;/i&gt;, or &lt;i&gt;Dark City&lt;/i&gt; being called &quot;steampunk&quot; when the technology and style is more 1920-1960.  I prefer the notion of &quot;future-past,&quot; which would include steampunk.
There is also the term &quot;retro-futuristic,&quot; which relates more to past speculations of the future re-appropriated in the present.

Yikes, the caffeine is making me chatty!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever seen this?:  <a href="http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/inside/" rel="nofollow">http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/inside/</a></p>
<p>Ann &amp; Jeff Vandermeer recently published an anthology as well:  <a href="http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2008/05/08/steampunk-get-your-fresh-brass-goggled-steampunk-antho-here/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2008/05/08/steampunk-get-your-fresh-brass-goggled-steampunk-antho-here/</a></p>
<p>I will also take this opportunity to promote a band:  <a href="http://www.unextraordinarygentlemen.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.unextraordinarygentlemen.com/</a><br />
The singer and I used to hang out before he moved to L.A.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m kind of wary of the whole thing, only because I think the term is getting applied a bit too liberally.  It&#8217;s also dangerously close to becoming mere fetish w/o any kind of theory behind it.  Admittedly, the Steampunk Mag folks seem pretty invested in that end of things.<br />
But I dislike films like <i>Brazil</i>, <i>City of Lost Children</i>, or <i>Dark City</i> being called &#8220;steampunk&#8221; when the technology and style is more 1920-1960.  I prefer the notion of &#8220;future-past,&#8221; which would include steampunk.<br />
There is also the term &#8220;retro-futuristic,&#8221; which relates more to past speculations of the future re-appropriated in the present.</p>
<p>Yikes, the caffeine is making me chatty!</p>
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