EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Golden Ratio, P.O.D., Human Cloning
Document Summary
Neuromancer classic science ficion in medias res, for quick narraive. Drops reader into a world without much explanaion, no sense of where or when. Tiny clues, informaion comes to reader in pieces, taken from case"s memories (retrospecive bits and pieces) in between bouts of drug induced euphoria. Immediate, harsh immersion into world of futurisic pirate state. Theme: piracy used extensively by science icion e. g. space pirates and data/sotware pirates. Piracy is a condiion of existence, endemic in futurisic world (everyone is on the hustle, everyone is dirty, everyone is out for himself including protagonist case) Not just ancient arifacts, hardware (usb etc), sotware and wetwear (direct machine human interface), human organs. Everything is for sale in this future world. Smuggler/murderer, lives in dog eat dog world of cuthroats and pirates in chiba city. A broken man, pieced together by the reader similar to the way wintermute pieces together.
