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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"William Gibson"”.
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Random Access Memories: Mechanism and Metaphor in the Fiction of William Gibson
… the amnesic spaces of the postmodern world. William Gibson in particular has incorporated this memory project into the majority of his early short stories and novels. Together with those authors and artists who inspired him and those who draw from his work, he depicts the mechanisms and …
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An analysis of selected ""cyberpunk"" works by William Gibson, placed in a cultural and socio-political context
This thesis studies William Gibson's ""cyberspace trilogy"" (Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive). This was an extremely interesting and significant development in 1980s science fiction. It was used to codify and promote the ""cyberpunk"" movement in science fiction at that time, which …
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Gothic economies: Global capitalism and the boundaries of identity
… of the postmodern technopolis---the fiction of William Gibson, for example---has continued to borrow Gothic motifs and devices.</p><p>This dissertation is a study of literary representations of technology, capitalism and the modern metropolis---representations based in the anxieties and desires …
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Clifford Odets: playwright-poet
… development of such later writers as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayevsky, William Gibson and Lorraine Hansberry—his plays are nevertheless regarded as museum pieces. His critical standing among literary scholars has been touched by condescension and distorted by biographical and …
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The Self-Destructive Book and The Library: Agrippa (a book of the dead) (1992-)
… Jr, the artist Dennis Ashbaugh and the writer William Gibson. This launch event did not happen, or at least not as planned: instead it turned into a series of local happenings from which Agrippa escaped in multiple forms and survived to this day. Based on an Arts and Humanities Research Council …
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An analysis of the flow disturbance due to gaseous secondary injection into a rocket nozzle
The flow disturbances in a supersonic rocket nozzle due to secondary injection have been analyzed by using an effective body approximation. The analysis is based upon a consideration of the momentum flux of the primary and secondary flows and the under-expansion of the momentum flux of the …
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Geology of the Willow City-Eckert area, Gillespie County, Texas
This paper discloses the results of a geologic investigation of an area lying on the south rim of the Llano basin. A map is presented showing the stratigraphy and structure of this area. The historical events of the region were deformation and igneous intrusion antedating Upper Cambrian, doming in …
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Artificial perspectives: how science fiction grapples with the growing power of artificial intelligence
… Daemon, Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, and William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy to draw out assumptions regarding AI and its relationship to humanity within the works. The paper concludes with the assertion that while the future of AI may be uncertain, its importance cannot be ignored, and thus …
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Transparent cultures: Imagined users and the politics of software design (1975-2012)
… imagine such a future. The cyberpunk writings of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling respond to the cultural constraints of transparent design. In cyberpunk’s dystopias, transparency reifies technocratic power, granting only a small number of corporate actors control over computation. While critics …
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Evolution of Cyberspace as a Landscape in Cyberpunk Novels
… representations of cyberspace by examining William Gibson's Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's Snow crash. In this work I contrast the metaphysical, found nature of the first cyberpunk representation of cyberspace with the homogenized, commodified reality of the last cyberpunk representation.