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Technostalgia: Celebrating Contingency
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The film Iron Man sold more than $100 million worth of tickets in three days when it opened in US theaters last weekend, nearly an all-time record for a movie that’s not a sequel. As a result, a relatively little-known genre known as steampunk has finally begun to achieve some recognition in mass culture. A quarter-century after its beginnings as a literary phenomenon, having gradually seeped into Hollywood movies, popular music, fashion and design, steampunk was accorded status as a subculture by no less an authority than the Styles Section of The New York Times, thus joining a miscellany of other costumed social hobbies as various as grunge, goth, Martha Stewart and Civil War re-enactment.
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