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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Androids as Slaves of Colonialization
“Nothing is as exciting. To read about cities and huge industrial enterprises, and really successful colonization. You can imagine what it might have been like. What Mars ought to be like,” (Dick 151). Pris is here telling Isadore of the … Continue reading
Implications of Setting in Neuromancer
Neuromancer (just like Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) takes place in a setting that includes both an arsenal of advanced technology and a pervading sense of urban decay. On one hand, the contrast between the two– … Continue reading
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Technological Development and the Natural Environment
The natural world—forests, open fields, areas untouched by mankind—are almost completely lacking in William Gibson’s, Nueromancer. In fact, Gibson demonstrates the gross disconnect between humans and nature in the opening line of his work, comparing the sky—one of the most … Continue reading
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Humanity and Identity in Neuromancer
Neuromancer is a novel deeply entrenched in themes of individual identity and relevance of physical human embodiment. In the beginning of the story, Case associates his identity wholly with his job. He sees himself only as a useless thug-for-hire without … Continue reading
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Technology Overload
William Gibson’s novel titled Neuromancer was one of the first novels published within a new subgenre of science fiction called cyberpunk. This literary movement began in the 1980s and sought to combine things of high tech nature with things of … Continue reading
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Digital Fate in relation to Identity
“I’m the matrix, Case.” Case laughed. “Where’s that get you?” “Nowhere, Everywhere. I’m the sum total of the works, the whole show.” Gibson, 259. “And one October night, punching himself past the scarlet tiers of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority, … Continue reading
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Drugs and Technology: Limitations and expansion
One of the major themes of the novel Neuromancer was the use of drugs and how these drugs would make it so Case would be able to function. Here, drugs are seen as an enabler of Case. One of the … Continue reading
Limitations of Technology
Technology has given us the capability to do some pretty amazing things in our lifetime. We can do things never thought possible before, like having face-to-face virtual conversations over the computer with people across the world. Do these rapid advancements … Continue reading
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Cyberspace: Negotiating psychological, spiritual and technological spaces
Gibson utilizes spiritual and psychedelic imagery in describing cyberspace revealing an intention to create more than simply a virtual reality that mimics or copies physical reality. He uses vivid visual and abstract imagery: “phosphenes boiling in from the edge of … Continue reading
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Differences in Advancement
While reading Neuromancer, one component that stood out to me was the stark differences between the advancement of technology in different areas. When Case goes to find Molly in the brothel, the narrator describes, “Extending her right hand as though … Continue reading
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