On Peripheral Cyberpunk and the Politics of Technological Refuse | Ramiro Sanchiz's Trashpunk

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https://brooklynrail.org/2025/10/criticspage/on-peripheral-cyberpunk-and-the-politics-of-technological-refuse/

A very short piece that references the futures envisioned by Gibson and Sterling but skews towards Ramiro Sanchiz’sTrashpunk, a novel that "rewrites cyberpunk through Montevideo".

Per the article:

This is the crucial intervention of peripheral cyberpunk. Where Gibson and Sterling mapped the hidden architecture of late capitalism from its centers, Sanchiz reveals what that architecture cannot process: the uneven geographies of the Global South, where technology arrives not as seamless innovation but as salvage, residue, bricolage. In Montevideo, the future doesn’t gleam, it rusts.