ANTH245-2007-11-26

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Neuromancer

Business

• Responses

Recap

• Blogging and Identity
• Complements discussion of community
• Textual selves
• Fun: http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html?map.it

Segue

• Programs as texts ...

Neuromancer

Close Reading

• Page 1

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