Neil Easterbrook
Biographic Data
| ID | 1506815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Easterbrook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Easterbrook |
| SIGNATURE | EASTERBROOK N |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1496-5519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cognitive Estrangement Is Us
Singularities
Data, Not Theory
Mediating Intermediation
A Huge Ellipsis
Alternate Presents
Pattern Recognition, Gibson’s most recent novel, is purportedly set in “the present,” and so purportedly marks a significant break both in his own work and in the way sf is conceived. The book’s treatment of the concepts of past, present, and future, however, is inherently ambivalent—that is to say, simultaneously oriented toward several possible alternative positions, some of them mutually exclusive. To clarify this ambivalence, this article eng…
A New Addition to the Critical Toolbox
"Somehow Disturbed at the Core"
The Arc of Our Destruction
Though cyberpunk’s proponents embrace it as a subversion of corporate culture, its images suggest exactly the opposite. In the work of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling most particularly Neuromancer and The Artificial Kid, two specific sorts of tropes inform the narrative—a neat reversal of the natural/artificial opposition and an erasure implied by that reversal: advanced technology erases human morality. The rhetorical figures in each of the no…
The Arc of Our Destruction
Though cyberpunk’s proponents embrace it as a subversion of corporate culture, its images suggest exactly the opposite. In the work of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling most particularly Neuromancer and The Artificial Kid, two specific sorts of tropes inform the narrative—a neat reversal of the natural/artificial opposition and an erasure implied by that reversal: advanced technology erases human morality. The rhetorical figures in each of the no…
"Somehow Disturbed at the Core"
A New Addition to the Critical Toolbox
Mediating Intermediation
A Huge Ellipsis
Alternate Presents
Pattern Recognition, Gibson’s most recent novel, is purportedly set in “the present,” and so purportedly marks a significant break both in his own work and in the way sf is conceived. The book’s treatment of the concepts of past, present, and future, however, is inherently ambivalent—that is to say, simultaneously oriented toward several possible alternative positions, some of them mutually exclusive. To clarify this ambivalence, this article eng…
Data, Not Theory
Singularities
Cognitive Estrangement Is Us
Computer Science (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · Arc (geometry) (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Business (1 works)