Riviera's Golem, Haraway's cyborg: Reading Neuromancer as Baudrillard's simulation of crisis.
Cites the characters Riviera and Case in William Gibson's novel `Neuromancer' as examples of two creators contrasted by Jean Baudrillard in his essay `Simulacra and Simulacrum,' which focuses on the specular and discursive tradition of representation. Computer simulation of images; Description of t...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 188 - 199 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of California Press
Jul96
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| Sumario: | Cites the characters Riviera and Case in William Gibson's novel `Neuromancer' as examples of two creators contrasted by Jean Baudrillard in his essay `Simulacra and Simulacrum,' which focuses on the specular and discursive tradition of representation. Computer simulation of images; Description of the two characters; Movement from arresting to generative magic; Simulated death. |
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