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Page 244
... matrix . The word " matrix " originates in the Latin mater , meaning both " mother " and " womb . " This in itself suggests that cyberspace is a feminized space . Nicola Nixon points out that Gibson's mysterious , ghostly women , such ...
... matrix . The word " matrix " originates in the Latin mater , meaning both " mother " and " womb . " This in itself suggests that cyberspace is a feminized space . Nicola Nixon points out that Gibson's mysterious , ghostly women , such ...
Page 248
... matrix - hence the flatlining - and a desire to fuse with the technological object , a desire to be the fetish . It should be emphasized that my argument is not that the relationship between the console cowboy and the matrix is pre ...
... matrix - hence the flatlining - and a desire to fuse with the technological object , a desire to be the fetish . It should be emphasized that my argument is not that the relationship between the console cowboy and the matrix is pre ...
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... matrix of his discussion . This matrix is , as the title suggests , constructed alphabetically : the format of the book is a list of major locations in sf's textual history ranging from isolated architectural structures ( the Hall of ...
... matrix of his discussion . This matrix is , as the title suggests , constructed alphabetically : the format of the book is a list of major locations in sf's textual history ranging from isolated architectural structures ( the Hall of ...
Contents
ARTICLES | 193 |
Kenneth Krabbenhoft Uses of Madness in Cervantes | 216 |
ii | 217 |
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