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Week 2
(Imaginaries)
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Cyber imaginaries and Sci-Fi futures
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Interview with William Gibson
(linkhere)
Kitchen Carnage by Josephone
Starrs
(linkhere)
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Readings Discussion:
Streeter, T. (2011) The Moment of Wired, Chapter 5 in The Net Effect:
Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet. New York and London: New York University Press.
Gibson, W. (1984) [excerpt pp 62- 83] Neuromancer. London: Harper Collins.
Mind Map Production Activity
(read morehere)
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Neuromancer
In the tutorials this week we will play a 1988 video
game calledNeuromancer
Readmore about this gameand see if you can
identify the ideas, characters and places
borrowed from Gibson's book and those that have
been added. Is this how you imagined Gibson's
'cyberspace' to look and feel?
(linkhere)
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