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== Themes ==
== Themes and Symbols ==


* Postmodern myth
''Neuromancer'' can be read as a postmoderm myth -- a narrative rich with condensed symbols of the age, both an encompassment of a preceding world and the portent of the next ...
** Prophetic?
 
* Cyberspace
=== Multinationalism ===
** Compare Cyberspace to the World Wide Web
* Examples?
* "An age of affordable beauty"
* Mapped onto the body
* Meat
 
=== Cyberspace ===
* Compare Cyberspace to the World Wide Web
* Community?
 
=== Affordable beauty ===
* See DEVO image
 
=== Meat ===
* Bodies and Persons
 
=== AI ===
* Turing

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Neuromancer


Business

  • Responses

Recap

Segue

  • Programs as texts ...

Neuromancer

Close Reading

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Themes and Symbols

Neuromancer can be read as a postmoderm myth -- a narrative rich with condensed symbols of the age, both an encompassment of a preceding world and the portent of the next ...

Multinationalism

  • Examples?
  • Mapped onto the body

Cyberspace

  • Compare Cyberspace to the World Wide Web
  • Community?

Affordable beauty

  • See DEVO image

Meat

  • Bodies and Persons

AI

  • Turing