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Forsberg, Daniel. "The Future Societies of Ira Levin and William Gibson." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-7776.

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The meaning of this essay is to look at how the narrative strategies, description of character and society differ between the two novels "This Perfect Day" and "Neuromancer". By looking at the different narrative techniques used by the authors and the results we can see why some of these strategies work very well in one novel but would not suit the other because of the contrasts in style it would produce.

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Griffin, Brent. ""Plagues of the New World Order": Technology and Political Alternatives in William Gibson's Neuromancer." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/GriffinBX2006.pdf.

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Becker, Christophe. "L'Influence de William. S. Burroughs dans l’œuvre de William Gibson et de Genesis P-Orridge." Paris 8, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA084168.

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L’influence de l’écrivain américain William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) sur des artistes d’horizons différents, est aujourd’hui bien documentée. Peu d’artistes ont toutefois dépassé le stade de la simple influence pour véritablement travailler à prolonger son œuvre et la porter dans des directions inédites. Notre travail a consisté à étudier l’influence de William S. Burroughs sur deux artistes qui ont précisément fait ce choix : l’écrivain américain William Gibson et le musicien, « performer » et essayiste anglais Genesis P-Orridge. Nous nous sommes penché sur l’univers représenté dans les roman

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McFarlane, Anna M. "A gestalt approach to the science fiction novels of William Gibson." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6263.

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Gestalt psychologists Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler argue that human perception relies on a form, or gestalt, into which perceptions are assimilated. Gestalt theory has been applied to the visual arts by Rudolf Arnheim and to literature by Wolfgang Iser. My original contribution to knowledge is to use gestalt theory to perform literary criticism, an approach that highlights the importance of perception in William Gibson's novels and the impact of this emphasis on posthumanism and science fiction studies. Science fiction addresses the problem of difference and the relationship between self an

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Haggis, Timothy Edward Matazone. "Hidden cyberspace : narrative and identity in the work of William Gibson." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502246.

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The work of William Gibson has had a profound influence over the way that technology is viewed in modern society, but since the mid-1980s criticism of his work has been largely based on Cyberpunk manifestos and interpretations of the genre in which his career began. His first novel Neuromancer (1984) has been critically regarded as the pinnacle of his career due, in part, to his later works not evoking the same resonance with the thematic discourses of Cyberpunk. The themes of the Cyberpunk genre have been used to interpret Gibson's subsequent output, despite the novels' movement away from Cyb

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Ferreira, Alberto José Viralhadas. ""Futurshocked Zombies or Hopeful Monsters" : discursos (pós)-humanistas em Neuromancer de William Gibson." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição de Autor], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/13692.

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Esta dissertação analisa a presença do Humanismo enquanto corrente filosófica, e de que forma esta voz se coaduna com as perspectivas pós e transhumanistas presentes na literatura cyberpunk, especificamente, na obra Neuromancer da autoria de William Gibson. Partindo de um fundo metafórico, a dissertação congrega diversos instrumentos metodológicos do campo da sociologia, filosofia e estudos culturais, encontrando-se dividida em três partes, sendo que as duas primeiras destinam-se a fundamentar teoricamente o estudo das posições narrativa acima descritas na terceira e última parte.

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Ferreira, Alberto José Viralhadas. ""Futurshocked Zombies or Hopeful Monsters" : discursos (pós)-humanistas em Neuromancer de William Gibson." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição de Autor], 2009. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000193047.

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Esta dissertação analisa a presença do Humanismo enquanto corrente filosófica, e de que forma esta voz se coaduna com as perspectivas pós e transhumanistas presentes na literatura cyberpunk, especificamente, na obra Neuromancer da autoria de William Gibson. Partindo de um fundo metafórico, a dissertação congrega diversos instrumentos metodológicos do campo da sociologia, filosofia e estudos culturais, encontrando-se dividida em três partes, sendo que as duas primeiras destinam-se a fundamentar teoricamente o estudo das posições narrativa acima descritas na terceira e última parte.

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Junior, Newton Ribeiro Rocha. "Creator and creature in William Gibson´s "Neuromancer": the promethean motif in science fiction." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-7E2KKV.

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The human pursuit of knowledge is the core of the Prometheus myth and science fiction (SF). The punishment of Prometheus is a reflection of the double nature of knowledge: it can be used for the benefit or the destruction of humanity. SF shares this topic, representing the complex relation between the human race and knowledge through many forms: the encounter with alien cultures and extraterrestrials, the consequences of technological development, and the confrontation between civilization and its creations. SF works are contemporary representations of the Promethean drama, especially in the

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Kneale, James Robert. "Lost in space? : readers' constructions of science fiction worlds." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309071.

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Forshaw, Mark. "Affectless subjects, atrocious bodies : thematics and history in fictions by Burroughs, Ballard and Gibson." Thesis, Keele University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391222.

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Blatchford, Mathew. "An analysis of selected ""cyberpunk"" works by William Gibson, placed in a cultural and socio-political context." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6721.

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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 this thesis also briefly studies. Such a study (at such a relatively late date, given the rapid pace of change in popular culture) seems valuable because a great deal of self-serving and mystifying comment and analysis has served to confuse critical understanding about this movement. It seems clear t

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Tarapata, Olga [Verfasser], Hanjo [Gutachter] Berressem, and Urte [Gutachter] Helduser. "Beyond Disability: Extraordinary Bodies in the Work of William Gibson / Olga Tarapata ; Gutachter: Hanjo Berressem, Urte Helduser." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2018. http://d-nb.info/120668593X/34.

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Andersson, Sapir Erika. "Cowboys, meat-puppets och razor-girls : Ett genusperspektiv på kroppen i William Gibsons Neuromancer." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85671.

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Cyberpunk som litterär genre tar ofta upp teman som berör kroppen och dess förhållande till teknik på olika sätt. I denna uppsats studeras mäns och kvinnors förhållande till sin egen kropp och synen på manliga och kvinnliga kroppar i cyberpunk-romanen Neuromancer av William Gibson, utifrån Yvonne Hirdmans teorier om genus. I analysen av romanen kan man se två huvudsakliga spår utifrån Hirdmans tre formler för förhållandet mellan könen, varav det tydligaste är det som Hirdman kallar jämförelsens formel. Kvinnor ses som impulsstyrda och kroppsliga medan män står för intellektet och en längtan ef

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Maass, Alexandra. "Digital Cityscapes in American Science Fiction: Physical Structure, Social Relationships, and Programmed Identities." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1124.

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Because cities act as the primary site for the development and production of new technologies, they arguably act as crossing points into the growing digital environment. As information technologies such as computers, digital networks, and most specifically the Internet become normalized within American culture, a need arises to examine the impact these technologies have on those who use them. Science fiction texts often explore technological influence on the human body, social relationships, and developing culture, and typically utilize cities as settings for this exploration. An examination o

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Toro, García Cristian. "Imágenes recompuestas: un análisis del narrador de The difference engine." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/130260.

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Lawson, Jessica Lynn. "Subject matter: feminism, interiority, and literary embodiment after 1980." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6457.

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I argue that literary texts after 1980 use the fluid relationship between the physical world and the world of writing in order to present alternate versions of the body’s relationship to the mind. Examining works by Toni Morrison, William Gibson, Kathy Acker, Sarah Kane, and Shelley Jackson, I demonstrate the ways in which these texts reinterpret the relationship between mind and body by offering bodily metaphors for their character’s interior emotional lives; they compare this inner life to a pregnant mother, a sexual couple, and more. I emphasize the political implications of the kinds of bo

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Toerien, Michelle. "Boundaries in cyberpunk fiction : William Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix, and Neal Stephenson's Snow crash." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51639.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Cyberpunk literature explores the effects that developments in technology will have on the lives of individuals in the future. Technology is seen as having the potential to be of benefit to society, but it is also seen as a dangerous tool that can be used to severely limit humanity's freedom. Most of the characters in the texts I examine wish to perpetuate the boundaries that contain them in a desperate search for stability. Only a few individuals manage to move beyond the boundaries created by multinational corporations th

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Granger, Remy Maud. "Le roman posthumain." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030040.

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A travers l'analyse comparée des romans de Houellebecq, Dantec, Gibson et Ellis, cette thèse cherche à définir un nouveau genre littéraire transnational que j'appelle Le roman posthumain. L'accès à l'écriture des romanciers posthumains correspond à l'âge de la toute-puissance des médias. Leur statut d'écrivain s'inscrit dans une stratégie de manipulation de la couverture médiatique. Experts en scandale, ils sont l'illustration d'une double évolution : celle du statut de la littérature face à l'information, et de la posture de l'écrivain, entre engagement et star system. Ces textes peuvent d'ab

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Laurie, Henri De Guise. "Transferentiality :|bmapping the margins of postmodern fiction / H. de G. Laurie." Thesis, North-West University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9670.

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This thesis starts from the observation that, while it is common for commentators to divide postmodern fiction into two general fields – one experimental and anti-mimetic, the other cautiously mimetic, there remains a fairly significant field of postmodern texts that use largely mimetic approaches but represent worlds that are categorically distinct from actuality. This third group is even more pronounced if popular culture and “commercial” fiction, in particular sf and fantasy, are taken into account. Additionally, the third category has the interesting characteristic that the texts within th

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Bickerstaff, Meghan Triplett. "Okay, Maybe You Are Your Khakis: Consumerism, Art, and Identity in American Culture." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1092258380.

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Hamade, Akram. "L'Influence du romantisme sur les oeuvres de Khalil Gibran et William Styron." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375947975.

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Hamade, Akram. "L'influence du romantisme sur les oeuvres de Khalil Gibran et William Styron." Rennes 2, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985REN20010.

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Flett, Edward Charles. "Virtual frontiers and the technological state : contemporary American narratives in a global context." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:608353cc-62d8-496c-b8df-d79de028f03e.

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This thesis analyses a series of threshold states located within contemporary culture. It investigates the effects of technology on spatial relations and human conditions in recent centuries, with a specific interest in the rise of virtual phenomena and the ongoing process of virtualisation. Key to the discussion is measuring the extent to which America and its narratives have influenced the virtual layer attached to contemporary global technological culture. Prevalent within this framework is the idea of the frontier as an idealised outpost, a lingering threshold state that is scrutinised in

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PANZANI, Ugo Francesco Mauriz. "“I think, therefore I connect”. Database, connessionismo ed esopoiesi nel romanzo anglo-americano (1995-2011)." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/26702.

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The aim of this doctoral thesis is to analyse how the contents and the structures of the Anglo-American novel have been influenced by the emergence of digital and telematic media during the last two decades. One of the primary targets is to identify the common strategies adopted by electronic and printed novels to analyze the complexity and to try, at the same time, to escape from the “trap” of language. In my introduction I argue about the increasing relevance of the pattern/randomness dialectic into the narrative field. In the first chapter, while analysing the two novels Galatea 2.2 (1995)

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Mocabee, Keith. "Anxiety in William Gibson's "Blue Ant" Trilogy| The Construction of Space, Time, and Community in the Post-Cyberpunk Literary Environment." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10250021.

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<p> William Gibson is well known for his science fiction writing within the cyberpunk literary genre, which often evoke themes of economic disparity, environmental desolation, and the breakdown of the contracts between state and populace allowing corporate power to emerge dominant. In his most recent series of novels, commonly dubbed the Blue Ant trilogy, Gibson focuses on themes of national decay compounded by the real-time emergence of post-national corporate power that degrades or usurps control over borders, identities, and infrastructures.</p><p> My intent is to examine how Gibson's wri

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Long, Bruce Raymond. "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5838.

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Informationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts. In "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction" the author applies the theoretical framework and its specific methods and principles to various contemporary science fiction works, including works by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson an

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Long, Bruce Raymond. "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5838.

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Master of Philosophy (MPhil)<br>Informationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts. In "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction" the author applies the theoretical framework and its specific methods and principles to various contemporary science fiction works, including works by Wi

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Latham, Jamie Marc. "The clergy and print in eighteenth-century England, c. 1714-1750." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275032.

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In much of the historiography surrounding print culture and the book trade, the worldliness of print remains a point of common emphasis. Indeed, many influential studies either assume or actively present the history of print as part of a broader ‘secularization thesis’. Recently, however, historians have challenged these narratives, recognizing the central role of religious print as a driver of growth within the book trade and discussion within the nascent ‘public sphere’. Yet the scholarship into ‘religion and the book’ remains fragmentary, focused on individual genres or persons, with no uni

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Hayes, Elizabeth Anne. "Surface inscriptions: implications of the postmodern in William Gibson's future worlds." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1305702.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>Throughout his Sprawl and Bridge trilogies, each of which portray visions of a future evolving from his postmodern present, William Gibson expresses concerns regarding postmodernization and its impact on individuals and society alike. I argue that in these trilogies in particular, Gibson asserts the view that the various dilemmas faced by postmodern culture arise from its passive submission to commodification and technologization. By adopting a Jamesonian approach to the postmodern and combining it with Guy Debord’s theory of spectacular socie

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Lapointe, Annette. "The machineries of uncivilization: technology and the gendered body in the fiction of Margaret Atwood and William Gibson." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4337.

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My dissertation examines some of the ways in which new technologies alter traditional readings of the female body and of feminine subjectivity in contemporary fiction. To illustrate these alterations, I have selected two short stories, one by William Gibson and the other by Margaret Atwood, published in the speculative fiction Tesseracts2 anthology in 1987, both of which deal with disease and women's technological access. Within this context, I examine how feminine sexuality and embodiment are deconstructed and re-written. While historically women have been represented as victims of technol

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Holloway, Heather. "The evolution of cyberspace as a landscape in cyberpunk novels." 2004. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/commentframe.php?sid=24&fid=archive/Fall2004/hhollowa/holloway%5Fheather%5Fd%5F200408%5Fmae.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia Southern University, 2004.<br>"A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts." ETD. INDEX WORDS: William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer, Snow crash, science fiction, cyberpunk, cyberspace, metaphysics, cyberculture, transrealism. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-73).

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Plaschka, Oliver [Verfasser]. "Verlorene Arkadien : das pastorale Motiv in der englischen und amerikanischen fantastischen Literatur ; H.P. Lovecraft, James Branch Cabell, Mervyn Peake, William Gibson / von Oliver Plaschka." 2009. http://d-nb.info/999205609/34.

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Taillefer, Hélène. "L'intelligence artificielle comme figure de la dystopie dans Nineteen eighty-four, de George Orwell, le Dépeupleur, de Samuel Beckett, et Neuromancer, de William Gibson." Mémoire, 2009. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/2229/1/M10931.pdf.

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Ce mémoire porte sur la figure de l'intelligence artificielle, en ce qu'elle permet d'incarner les craintes et les angoisses mises au jour par la critique sociale véhiculée dans les fictions dystopiques. Il analyse les manifestations d'êtres-machines et de structures de contrôle social créés par l'humanité, et dont la conduite témoigne d'une forme d'intelligence; il montre ainsi en quoi certaines structures sociales se calquent sur les machines pensantes imaginées. S'appuyant sur une approche pluridisciplinaire qui fait notamment appel aux domaines de la cybernétique, de la biologie et de la s

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Sanders, Leonard Patrick. "Postmodern orientalism : William Gibson, cyberpunk and Japan : a thesis presented in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/816.

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Taking the works of William Gibson as its point of focus, this thesis considers cyberpunk’s expansion from an emphatically literary moment in the mid 1980s into a broader multimedia cultural phenomenon. It examines the representation of racial differences, and the formulation of global economic spaces and flows which structure the reception and production of cultural practices. These developments are construed in relation to ongoing debates around Japan’s identity and otherness in terms of both deviations from and congruities with the West (notably America). To account for these developments,

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Talpalaru, Margrit. "“What drives your own desiring machines?” Early twenty-first century corporatism in Deleuze-Guattarian theory, corporate practice, contemporary literature, and locavore alternatives." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1752.

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This dissertation identifies and investigates the characteristics of the early 21st-century social, economic, and political situation as intrinsically connected and grouped under the concept of corporatism. Starting from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s schizoanalysis of capitalism, this thesis argues that corporatism or corporate capitalism is immanent: an interconnected, networked, rhizomatic system that has been successful at overtaking biopower – life in all its forms, human and otherwise – and managing it, or even making it its business. Methodologically, this dissertation aims to move

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Deng, Wei-Shin, and 鄧惟心. "Surveillance and Trauma in William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12090612143788799772.

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碩士<br>國立暨南國際大學<br>外國語文學系<br>101<br>This thesis aims to highlight two obscure themes, surveillance and trauma as depicted in William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) and Pattern Recognition (2003). We are now living in the War on Terror since September 11th, 2001; however, Terror is not the only affects emerged from the ruins and ashes of the World Trade Center. By comparing the two novels with different time backgrounds, we can figure out how Gibson had focused on the two themes since the 1980s and represented them differently. In the chapter of surveillance, ideas of Michel Foucault’s panopticonis

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Chuo, Chun-wei, and 卓君威. "In Search of a Redefinition of Utopia in William Gibson's Neuromancer Trilogy." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28639445691398072688.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>外國語文學系研究所<br>90<br>Representing a tempting yet forever out of reach earthly paradise, Utopia has long been the source of both infinite hope and constant frustration for humanity. While the failure to achieve a perfect society has often been attributed to the incurably flawed human nature, one suspects the real problem may lie in the concept of perfection itself. After all, there can never be an absolute, universal idea of ‘the perfect condition,’ since the definition of perfection inevitably changes with context and the perspective it is viewed from. Therefore, as modern-day ad

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Reilly, Geza Arthur George. ""What is a human, anyway?" : representations of posthumanism in Thomas Pynchon's V. and William Gibson's Neuromancer." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/20401.

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Reilly, Géza Arthur George. ""What is a human, anyway?" : representations of posthumanism in Thomas Pynchon's V. and William Gibson's Neuromancer." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/20401.

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Li, Hui-chun, and 李蕙君. "The Re/Shaping of the Posthuman, Cyberspace, and Histories in William Gibson’s Idoru and All Tomorrow’s Parties." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9huen2.

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碩士<br>國立中山大學<br>外國語文學系研究所<br>96<br>Abstract: This thesis aims to explore how utopian desires re/shape the posthuman, cyberspace and histories by means of information technologies in William Gibson’s Idoru and All Tomorrow’s Parties, which construct a fragmented but subversive power by representing the world in a utopian text that allows the free play of ideology. Gibson uses utopian imagination to cobble together a near future that reflects his concern with information technologies and media over contemporary society. Utopian imaginations on the one hand open up possibilities and transform fix

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Taylor, C. J. "Collapsible Time: Contesting Reality, Narrative And History In South Australian Liminal Hinterlands." Phd thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/131791.

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My practice-led project explores the indexical lamination of memory, history, narrative and reality afforded by photography imbued with the illusion of spatial dimensionality. This thesis investigates the notion that far from freezing a ‘slice of time’ photography reanimates perception through sensation rendering duration flexible and elastic. Using the liminal landscape of South Australia as time’s stage, I contend that time is ‘collapsible’, constantly unfolding and repeating. In embracing this temporal flow, I submit that photomedia becomes our most compelling connection to time itself, as

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