Cyber is everywhere.
The human factor as a possible form of cyberpunk resilience and rebellion.

Our bodies, relationships, identities, desires — even rebellion itself — can be measured, reproduced, marketed and sold.

But where is the punk?

Starting with the punk movement of 1977 and moving toward the cyberpunk imagination of 2077, this video essay explores a question: what does rebellion mean inside a system capable of absorbing and commercializing rebellion itself?

Through Umberto Galimberti's reflections on the loss of the future, Walter Benjamin's ideas on technical reproducibility, Gian Lorenzo Bernini's *Ecstasy of Saint Teresa*, and David Foster Wallace's *This Is Water*, the essay considers whether the human factor — irrational, conscious, unique and sometimes impossible to optimize — might itself represent a form of resistance.

Perhaps being punk in a cyber world doesn't necessarily mean hacking systems or bringing down corporations.

Perhaps it means preserving something that cannot be reduced entirely to measurement, efficiency or price.