Prompt 10

I have several interesting topics in Neromancer that I want to talk about. First one is about agency. Armitage’s team, which include Case, Molly, Peter ….,  can be agency. They work as a team. Wintermute uses them to work for him because he doesn’t have physical body. This team can be considered as Wintermute’s body since they work for his body.

Freedom is also interesting part in this book. In this real world, where we are living now, it’s hard to imagine without the body. We barely have freedom about our body. In Neromancer, however, people could have freedom about the body. Case is the most predominant character who experienced freedom from his body. He connects to cyberspace where he can be apart from his meat. He can’t go certain place – which is not real – but he can see, talk and even feel!! All of these things are not related to his real body.

The next thing I want to talk about is death. There are a lot of character who are involved in death. For example, Dixie is dead person. But he is alive in cyberspace. Case is working (maybe just using) with him. Same as Linda. She is already dead in Chiba, but Case met her in the beach ( which is not real beach, cyberspace ). These facts can say that death is just related to body. In cyberspace, everyone is without the body. So death doesn’t affect anything to them. I think this is really interesting part. There’s one more interesting part about death what I want to mention about. It’s about Peter. Molly poisoned him. So he is almost dead. But Neromancer is using his eyes. Peter can be alive only if Neromancer keep his eyes. This means that if one part of your body is alive in other person, you are not died yet. This definition is really new for us. This whole thing can be new body modification related to high technologies.