![]() It is a response to what Fredric Jameson has called "the incapacity of our minds, at least at present, to map the great global multinational and decentered communicational network in which we find ourselves caught as individual subjects" ( Postmodernism 44). The concept of cyberspace is valuable as a narrative strategy because it is able to represent "unthinkable complexity," to gain a cognitive purchase upon the welter of data. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. ![]() A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. It is first defined for the reader via the narration of a children's educational program: "Cyberspace. Much of William Gibson's novel Neuromancer is centered around cyberspace, or the matrix as it is alternatively called, the representational innovation for which his work has become famous. ![]() ![]() The Postmodern Imaginary In William Gibson's Neuromancer In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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