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Atompunk the cultural period 1945-1965

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Atompunk is a strictly pre-digital period, but it includes mid-century Modernism, the "Atomic Age," the "Space Age," and, especially, lots of Communism and communism paranoia in the USA. Communist analog atompunk is an ultimate lost world.

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Sovjet styling, underground cinema, Googie architectuur, Space and Sputnik, moonlanding, superhero-comi, art & radioactivity, the rise of the US military/industrial complex & the fall-out of Tsjernobyl

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Reallife Atompunk Projects will be March-Aug 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Sept 9-13, GOGBOT festival in Enschede www.gogbot.nl

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