Antimancer: Cybernetics and Art in Gibson's Count Zero
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Jump to navigationJump to searchCsicsery-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).
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