Cybergothic Rot and the deaths of John Wick
________________________________________________________________________________ When i think cybergothic i think John Wick. And when i think about the many themes of John Wick i think of the productivity and aesthetic of rot. There are others of course, some of which have been well discussed among cinema enthusiasts. We will look at them first in order to understand how they compliment not contradict with the central theme of cybergothic rot in the wider field of what Mark Fisher termed »gothic materialism« and in context of our foul present . Videogames as the new flesh John Wick is entangled in the now established cultural influence of video games, which have left the undergrowth of greasy teenage rooms and male coded adolescence to become a more mature medium. A new medium sooner or later affects how we relate to older media. Think how movies, invented in the late 19th century, have become not only another form to communicate but another way to understand, articulate and r...
