Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (Fourth by Archibald Alison
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18 Another postmodernist narrative that in some ways anticipates cyberpunk is Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1984). This novel comments on the dystopian connotations of late capitalism by highlighting the precariousness of the apparently safe and idyllic life of small-town North America. The material security of consumer society is punctured through DeLillo’s introduction of two disturbing events: an industrial accident leading to the possibility of large-scale toxic contamination; and unlicensed drug experiments meant to cure the fear of death, which lead to violence and psychological mayhem.
He’d taken some Black Star before turning in his cab for the weekend. That was an hour? Or two hours ago? The digits on his watch winked at him, meaningless little sticks. 28 In some of his work, Sterling takes the idea of body invasion so far as to present worlds in which human beings have become obsolete and their bodies have been replaced by ‘a variety of posthuman species’. In Schismatrix (1985) and in ‘Twenty Evocations’ (1988), the Earth and humankind are remote vestiges of bygone ages. 29 ‘Twenty Evocations’ traces the life trajectory of Nikolai Leng from childhood to death, through twenty brief passages containing snippets of dialogue and descriptive detail.
These aim at establishing harmonizing systems and structures able to account for the relationship between matter and energy throughout the cosmos. In her novel, Winterson intimates that the GUTs’ objectives and the Ship’s project are analogous, for both deal with a universe in which the search for meaning is always a pursuit of the unfathomable: SHIP OF FOOLS: A mediaeval conceit. 2 There may, paradoxically, be a modicum of sanity in a quest that knows its object to be unattainable. There is also a sense in which the Ship’s legendary destiny could be read as a reward for its foolish undertakings.