… and he ↵said it again. Here’s an excerpt from a recent round of ↑Q&A with William Gibson: Question: On more philosophical and complicated themes. You are an artist, a creator, but more: you are through your writing an influencer, … Continue reading →
William Gibson’s latest novel “↑Zero History“ is slated for publication on 07 September 2010.
Continue reading →Did you ever notice that Timothy Price—in Bret Easton Ellis’s ‘American Psycho’—during the cab ride on page five wears a ‘Ralph Lauren silk tie,’ and, after having stepped out of the cab, ‘straightens his Versace tie’ on page eight?
Continue reading →His total assets were quickly converted to New Yen, a fat sheaf of the old paper currency that circulated endlessly through the closed circuit of the world’s black markets like the seashells of the Trobriand islanders. (↵Gibson 1984: 6)
Continue reading →‘It is like you to be more concerned for a machine than for a man.” He [eminent professor of sociology Simon Ninheimer] looked at her with savage contempt. It left her [US Robots’ Chief Robopsychologist Dr. ↑Susan … Continue reading →
Andrew J. Holden’s “↑The Cyberpunk Educator“ is “a documentary study of mainstream ‘cyberpunk’ films of the 1980’s- with a heavy focus on their literary, political, and cultural content. The film uses the structure of literary theorist Northrop Frye, and … Continue reading →
↑Bruce Sterling currently is jotting down ↑notes for a projected science fiction novel—maybe we again can, ↵like ↵before, witness a novel by a cyberpunk legend grow online. As a first Sterling published a list of political entities, plus according … Continue reading →
steampunk informed appropriation of mythical worlds and hardware ↑Captain Nemo‘s submarine “Nautilus” on the surface, getting entered by “cannibals”. The picture is for those, maybe a bit more traditionally oriented anthropologists, who dare to doubt that this vessel has anything … Continue reading →
Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations. (Wells 1995 [1897]: 44) ‘But did you—are you sure? Suppose a mirror for instance—hallucinations are so easily produced. I don’t … Continue reading →