Commentary on Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy

Members of English 65, The Cyborg Self, Brown University, Fall 2006

Neuromancer

• AI as Cold as Ice
• What is the Matrix?
• The Power of Knowledge
• Clockwork Fetishism
• Two bits or not two bits
• Virtual Reality vs. Experience, and Perceptions of Aesthetics
• Simulacra and Sense/Net: Media Terrorism in Neuromancer
• Twofaced Technology
• How you doing, Dixie?"
• "I Can't Get You Out of My Mind"
• Downloaded Personalities
• Immortal ROMs
• The Dehumanization of Desire

Count Zero

• The Cybernetic Bible
• Artificial Dreamtime
• The Old Dark
• Happily ever after
• Real Locations, Remixed
• AI and Art in Count Zero: A Formulation of the Postmodern
• The Human "Medium"
• "About those dreams?"
• The Mystery of Cockatoo's and Corks
• Death by Computer
• The Growing Dystopia of the Future
• "About those dreams?"
• GOD VERSION 2.0

Mona Lisa Overdrive

• God in Cyberspace
• Guns and Games
• Assimilation to the Matrix
• Take Me Now, To the (Living) Cities of the Future
• Ronin and Kumiko
• Angela++: the true Cyborg Self
• Capitalism on Auto-Pilot
• The Degradation Ceremony
• Celebrity Culture
• The Shape of the Reality
• Biosoft World

Members of English 65, The Cyborg Self, Brown University, Spring 2005

• Letter Writers
• Memory and Storage
• Conceptual Cyberspace in Neuromancer
• Cut It Out
• Reality and Humanity in Neuromancer
• Artificial Emotion and Sensations
• "Conscious and Unable to Think"
• Corporate Identity
• Cryptic Corruption
• Nothing but Component Parts?
• The World Above
• Perception and Consciousness
• Weaving together storylines
• Hiding behind Butterfly Wings
• Religion, Spirituality, and Technology in the Sprawl Trilogy
• Wintermute and Neuromancer, Godlike AIs
• Blood Bath Galore
• Claw
• The Vending Machine of Flesh (Zombies Welcome)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg

Members of English 111, Cyberspace, VR, and Critical Theory, Brown University, Spring 1998

• Katherine Sibley Angus, New Future, Same Questions
• Zachariah Boyle, Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy in the Context of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
• Jesse Chan-Norris, Cyberspace and the Sprawl
• Joshua Conterio, Neuromancer Afterlife
• Sharif Corinaldi, Intelligence and Comprehension: Response to Neuromancer
• Steve Cook, Gibson's Sprawl -- the Dominant Element in Neuromancer and Count Zero
• John Crews, Apocalypse and Other matters: Questions for Questions
• Erica Dillon, Ethnic Characterizations in Neuromancer and Count Zero
• Keith Feldman, The Place of Religion in Neuromancer [removed at author's request]
• Jacob George, Evolution or Revolution?
• Brian D. Hardy, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Electronica, and the Vampire
• Wayne Huang, Telescoping Time and Space
• Matthew Hutson, Science Fiction and Interpolation
• Ian Jones, Multinational Angst
• Laura Lee, Gibson's Invisible City
• Kelly Maudslien, Eros and the Matrix
• Marisa Murgatroyd, Layers of the Physical
• Caleb Neelon, Silly, Silly, Silly
• Michelle Neuringer, The Self in Cyberspace
• Dan Parke, The Shape of Things to Come
• William Peña, Alternative Consciousnesses: A "Case" Study
• Michael Pellauer, Matrices, Webs, and the Neutron Bomb
• Matt Pillsbury, The Samples of Neuromancer
• Noah (the Dharma Bum) Raizman, Neuromancer and the Fetishization of Information
• Elizabeth Rodwell, Flip! Diction Enhanced Experience
• Dan Rosen, Fun with Meat!
• Glen Sanford, Drug Use in Neuromancer
• Lora Schwartz, Landscapes of the Virtual and Real in Neuromancer
• Dan Stein, Cyborg Cynicism?
• Izel Sulam, Beyond CYB, Beyond ORG, Beyond NEURO, Beyond EVOLVERA
• Francesca Wodtke, Human Robots
• Ruiyan Xu, The Space in Between

References

Gibson, William Count Zero. New York: Ace Books, 1986.

Gibson, William Mona Lisa Overdrive. New York: Ace Books, 1988.

Gibson, William Neuromancer. New York: Ace Books, 1984.

Last updated 30 December 2006; Thanks to Adrian Midgley of Exeter for notifying us about a broken link