EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: In Medias Res, Cybernetics, Deus Ex
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Ais: more relatable as they are less distant in time and space than space, not too far in the future. Cyberpunk has overwhelmingly, consistently, and compellingly presented us with the specter of becoming puppets for our machines . The posthuman: a concept originating from the fields of science fiction, informatics, and artificial intelligence. While the term is still evolving, with a precise usage that may vary according to field and context, it is generally understood as meaning the late twentieth-and early twenty-first century revisioning through technology of what constitutes the human . Message of the novel: don"t be empty like case, take ownership and notice how the world is evolving. God to human evolution: wintermew has been playing god from the beginning, even before it fused with neuromancer. Why do we tell stories: because we are human, telling stories is integral to what it means to be human.
