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joanne mcneil
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wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY joannemcneil.com
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I also recommend reading the original post (in March 2020) on support from other libraries “This is a response to the scores of inquiries from educators about the capacity of our lending system and the scale needed to meet classroom demands because of the closures…” blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/a...

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I also recommend Chris Hayes’ recent interview with Brewster Kahle for his podcast blog.archive.org/2024/07/02/l...

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!!!

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And more on why Gibson’s debut novel endures while it creatively outpaces some of the technology it inspired

Screenshot text “Rereading Neuromancer over the summer, I was dazzled anew by the author’s uncanny prose—how Gibson wrestles technical jargon, the stuff of developer documentation and instruction manuals, out of its familiar contexts to create a neon mood of intrigue. We all know how the book opens (“the sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel”) but another evocative line, just as stunning, happens a few pages later, as the protagonist Case is thinking about his lost love, Linda Lee. He remembers “her face bathed in restless laser light, features reduced to a code: her cheekbones flaring scarlet as Wizard’s Castle burned, forehead drenched with azure when Munich fell to the Tank War, mouth touched with hot gold as a gliding cursor struck sparks from the wall of a skyscraper canyon.”
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thank you!

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Last year, The Big Book of Cyberpunk anthology was published and soon an exhibition on "cyberpunk" will open at the Academy Museum. Both projects would benefit from a stronger archival support rather than branching outward from narrow roots filmmakermagazine.com/127295-joann...

screenshot from text "Attempts to gather a less “demographically homogeneous” cyberpunk movement are as old as cyberpunk itself. Fanzines published essays like “Cyberpunk In Cuba” by Cero Uno, highlighting authors working outside of the mainstream in unexpected regions. When Gibson’s Burning Chrome was published in 1986, the writer Jeanne Gomoll, in an open letter, expressed irritation with Bruce Sterling’s introduction to the story collection. Sterling had characterized the previous decade of science fiction as “confused, self-involved and stale.” Gomoll countered that he had “whisked under the rug” the radical advances in the genre by feminist writers. Some of those feminist writers in the ’70s, like Joanna Russ and Marge Piercy, detailed proto-cyberpunk body modifications and technologies to jack into new realities. Their fiction would inspire Donna Haraway, who published A Cyborg Manifesto, a work of theory with themes simpatico with cyberpunk, in 1985. There’s an expansive history
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“The price tag is on par with what I would have paid for a taxi service but without the risk of sitting behind a driver who smells bad!”

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I was interested in what sort of work is made invisible. And what those workers think. How the charade is central to exploiting workers, but also there are times that you, the worker, might wish to be unseen

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“A man behind a curtain might be piloting this driverless car but at least he won’t give me the ick”

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The so-whatness Is what’s great. When we fight the exploitation we still have to hold on to that so-whatness. just like we need to protect the so-whatness of publishing anything in the first place.

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joanne mcneil
@jomc.bsky.social
wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY joannemcneil.com
776 followers202 following222 posts