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Essay Instructions: Write a 350-500 word, double-spaced response to the novel:

The Neuromancer, by: William Gibson


In the response advance a brief discussion or analysis of some aspect of the novel that you found particularly interesting or relevant to an understanding of the text as literature or as science fiction. Please avoid submitting plot or character summaries!

While you do not have to advance and develop a formal argument you should nonetheless:

*Make specific and interpretative comments about the text. Avoid advancing general statements about the novel as a whole, or summarizing the plot and character. Focus narrowly on one interesting element of the novel and interpret this aspect in depth, instead of making a number of broad and sweeping observations or to simply catalogue a large number of interesting elements of the text.

*Avoid making statements of either praise or criticism of the text without explaining why.

*Consider addressing or reflecting upon some aspect(s) of the novel that is relevant to an understanding of the text as science fiction. Ie. does it explore our treatment or understanding of the ?other?? Does it provide a particularly powerful discussion of the importance (or lack of importance) of embodiment? Does it explore the loss of boundaries between physical and virtual reality? Does it bring us to reflect on the relationship between science and society? Is its novum particularly well-advanced by its setting? Does it novum prove an effective tool in encouraging us to see the world differently? Etc.

* Consider identifying and then analyzing the significance of one important thread or strand (whether an idea or imagery or phrase) that runs through the novel.

Essay Instructions: please do the paper on william gibson . i want you to compare three of his books which are pattern recognition , neuromancer , and idoru.

also can you send a thesis paper with an outline

Essay Instructions: Answer one of the following questions in a 5-page (1250 word) essay:
1. Two of the primary metaphors or concepts of Cyberculture are cyberspace and the cyborg. Each emerges in relation to new technological developments-- communication and information technology on the one hand, biotechnology on the other. Cyberspace imagines a place in which humans can circulate, interact, and communicate free from the physical constraints of embodied existence. Cyborgs are embodied creatures who combine natural/organic qualities with technical/ mechanical enhancements or supplements. Each of these three novels(William Gibson's Neuromancer, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Pat Cardigan's Synners) takes up the questions of cyberspace and the cyborg. Write an essay in which you address the depiction of one or both of these concepts in one of these three novels. Make sure both to define cyberspace or the cyborg in terms of the readings we have done(I will write them down)and to develop a thesis about the functioning of these concepts in the novel you choose to discuss, supporting your thesis with analysis of specific passages from the novels.
2. In The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Weiner sets forth an account of cybernetics that depends upon the analogy between humans and machines. Write an essay in which you trace this analogy in one of the three novels mentioned above. Be sure both to explain how this analogy operates in Weiner's account of cybernetics and to develop a thesis about how it works in the novel you choose to discuss, supporting your thesis with analysis of specific passages from the novels.
3. In Understanding Media, Marshall Mcluhan characterizes media as "extensions of man." Write an essay in which you address Mcluhan's understanding of media in one of the three novels mentioned in one. Be sure to explain what Mcluhan means be considering media to be "extensions of man"and to develop a thesis about how it works in the novel you choose to discuss, supporting your thesis with analysis of specific passages from the novels.




The Readings you will benefit from to write the essay( especially in number one):
1. Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings. Cybernetics and Society
2. Marshall Mcluhan, Understanding Media. The extensions of Man
3. David Bell and Barbara M.Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader ( First Edition & Second Edition) Routledge

Essay Instructions: Choose one of the following topics for a 13-15 -page (3500-4000 word) essay. The essay should be clearly and correctly written and logically organized.
1. Two of the primary metapkors or concepts of cyberculture are cyberspace and the cyborg. Each emerges in relation to new technological developments- communication and information technology on the one hand, biotechnology on the other. Cyberspace imagines a place in which humans can circulate, interact, and communicate free from the physical constraints of embodied existence. Cyborgs are embodied creatures who combine natural/organic qualities with technical/ mechanical enhancements or supplements. Each of the three cyberpunk novels(William Gibson's Neuromancer, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash,Pat Cadigan's Synners) takes up the questions of cyberspace and of the cyborg. Write an essay in which you address the depiction of one or both of these concepts in ALL THREE NOVELS.Make sure both to define cyberspace or the cyborg in terms of the critical readings (I sent earlier) and to develop a thesis about the functioning of these concepts in the three novels, supporting your thesis with analysis of specific passages from the novels. You need also to make sure to research thoroughly the critical literature on these novels and to frame your paper as a contribution to one or more of the critical debates.
2. Write an essay on Cybercities ( an aspect of cyberculture). You need to research thoroughly the academic literature on this topic and to frame the paper as a contribution to the ongoing academic conversation about this topic. Use the scholarly work that has been done on this topic.
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