Yes, I know the question has been debated to death, but I want to draw an emphasis to where aesthetics falls into the genre. I've heard arguments that the whole of Cyberpunk is based around a renegade's interaction with a totalitarian, Orwell-styled government and/or Corporate entity - essentially embracing "punk" culture within the flair of Sci-fi. That said, I do wonder if we can still retain the quality of Cyberpunk without those specific elements. Say I were to write a philosophical story, set in a Cyberpunk-esque atmosphere, and that is thematically based around introspection, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and moral nihilism: is that Cyberpunk? What if I write a story that is set in a Cyberpunk setting, such as cities of neon, or the derelict wastes of abandoned industrial parks, but that does not hold transhumanism or computer hacking as a theme ? Would you say that is Cyberpunk

Something like Tron? This movie seems to encapsulate exactly what I'm thinking (but am having trouble expressing). Where the pure aesthetic of the genre takes center stage - with the narrative built around it. For example, In my current story, the protagonist undergoes a dissociative episode that incorporates elements of surrealism and Existentialist symbolism. While not very "cyber," in any sense of the word, it does seem to fit the melancholic "feel" of the genre. How would we gauge this relative to more "mainstream" examples of Cyberpunk?

If you say it would not be "true" Cyberpunk, then I've thought up a new term for this derivative approach: "Synth-wave Aestheticism." Would you say a new term is justified for an already niche genre ?