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@lasagnaphil .. Some very interesting points there. I wonder the reason for down-voting the text into a faded shade of grey?
by Stierlitz 6y ago
@lasagnaphil ..
Some very interesting points there. I wonder the reason for down-voting the text into a faded shade of grey?
- lasagnaphil 6y agoAh, thank you for the unfading. Sometimes comments that seem to be vaguely political gets downvoted kinda fast in this site. But nevertheless, I was just trying to connect the theme of this short story to a well-known phenomenon of "retrograde nostalgia" that is not just a symptom of political right but also to the political left. In that regard I view Gibson and this story as quite a visionary, predicting the cultural sentiments that would define the neoliberal era, before Derrida and Fisher. And also, there are many literature papers on the connection between the Gernsback Continuum and hauntology on the Internet - I've read a good piece before but the PDF link is kinda broken at the moment and cannot find it anymore.
- pessimizer 6y agoI bet there's almost as many who would reflexively downvote a mention of Derrida as who downvote lefty politics:)