Utopias virtuais: um estudo sobre o vaporwave e o ciberespaço geográfico

Abstract

The internet, a network communication model created primarily for military purposes in the 1960s, has become the primary means of communication of the early 21st century, revolutionizing the way we relate to each other and the world. These relationships, sometimes conflicting, reflect the conflicts of the physical-material space. Given the need to broaden the geographic view of cyberspace, and in this sense, the research carried out made use of vaporwave, an electronic and experimental musical genre that emerged and popularized on the internet in the mid-2010s as a case study, in an attempt to understand the new contemporary spatial flows. Adopting as a theoretical basis for the investigation the theories developed by Milton Santos, especially the Theory of Urban Economic Circuits, it was possible to understand the applicability and limitations of the use of the theory in the face of new spatial configurations of the globalized world. At the end of this research, it can be pointed out that the particularities of cyberspace demand a new perspective of analysis capable of embracing its accelerated flows, configuring, therefore, as a field full of questions to be addressed by geographic science in dialogue with other fields of knowledge.