ANALYSIS: cyberpunk and fictions of information multiplicity (Johnston, 1998: 6-7)
‘Whatever the value and interest of cyberpunk fiction, (…) it is clearly not a fiction of information multiplicity; in its attempts to deal with a “postcontemporary” high-tech milieu, it all too often returns to rather conventional narrative orderings. At the same time, novels such as Neuromancer (…) augur a different kind of communications assemblage looming on the technological horizon, one that not only assumes a totalized information economy but one in which familiar media - and the differences that seperate media make - disappear or assume completely new forms. Consequentially, for these novels cyberspace, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence establish the new terms of experience. Appropriately, therefore, this study finds its terminus ad quem in an analysis of how cyberpunk fiction represents what this new communications assemblage is likely to bring about.’
— John Johnston, Information Multiplicity: American Fiction in the Age of Media Saturation (Baltimore, MA: John Hopkins University Press, 1998), pp. 6-7.
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