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I didn’t know I needed quite this much ironic French retrofuturism

Rob Beschizza
Nov 18, 2025
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Florent Deloison‘s GiscardPunk is 19A0 in the Fifth Republic. Named for Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the centrist technocrat president of France from 1974-1981, it smudges the times and their technological marvels into a VHS datastream of tainted nostalgia: “the sound of a Europe that wanted to go faster, higher, cleaner… before everything got slower, chea…

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