Difference between revisions of "Antimancer: Cybernetics and Art in Gibson's Count Zero"
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'''[[Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr.]] "Antimancer: Cybernetics and Art in Gibson's Count Zero."''' ''SFS'' #65 = 22.1 (March 1995): 63-86. | '''[[Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr.]] "Antimancer: Cybernetics and Art in Gibson's Count Zero."''' ''SFS'' #65 = 22.1 (March 1995): 63-86. | ||
| − | Second essay in a trilogy of essays beginning with IC-R's "[[The Sentimental Futurist: Cybernetics and Art in William Gibson's Neuromancer | + | Second essay in a trilogy of essays beginning with IC-R's "[[The Sentimental Futurist: Cybernetics and Art in William Gibson's Neuromancer]]" essay (with the third essay on ''[[Mona Lisa Overdrive]]''). Claims that ''[[Count Zero]]'' fails as a "penance" or "antimancer" to [[Gibson, William|Gibson]]'s ''[[Neuromancer]]'', because "Gibson's counterforce is too abstract and theoretical to affect the language of power that drives the action of both novels." (RDE, 15/08/02) |
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| + | The article has no Abstract at the end — but this from the long, first-person headnote that replaces it (''italics'' removed). | ||
| + | My departure point is the thesis | ||
Revision as of 22:36, 20 May 2019
Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr. "Antimancer: Cybernetics and Art in Gibson's Count Zero." SFS #65 = 22.1 (March 1995): 63-86.
Second essay in a trilogy of essays beginning with IC-R's "The Sentimental Futurist: Cybernetics and Art in William Gibson's Neuromancer" essay (with the third essay on Mona Lisa Overdrive). Claims that Count Zero fails as a "penance" or "antimancer" to Gibson's Neuromancer, because "Gibson's counterforce is too abstract and theoretical to affect the language of power that drives the action of both novels." (RDE, 15/08/02)
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EXPANSION: The article has no Abstract at the end — but this from the long, first-person headnote that replaces it (italics removed).
My departure point is the thesis
