Stealing Kinship: Neuromancer and Artificial Intelligence.
William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) taps into anxieties surrounding humanity's status in a world shared with artificial intelligences; in particular, Gibson asks what habits of thought might such intelligences inherit from their makers. Gibson is invested in the possibility of fostering kinship betw...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 69 - 93 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of California Press
Mar2014
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