William Gibson on Japan

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Sat Mar 31 23:17:32 PST 2001


On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Ian Murray crossposted from William Gibson:


> http://www.observer.co.uk/life/story/0,6903,466391,00.html
> The Japan issue
>
> Understanding otaku -hood, I think, is one of the
> keys to understanding the culture of the web. There is something profoundly
> post-national about it, extra-geographic. We are all curators, in the
> post-modern world, whether we want to be or not.

Gibson hits the grand slam. His best stuff is like galaxies flashing in front of hyperdimensional portals, incomprehensible complexity and spellbinding simplicity, and here he's right on the (euro)money. Dazzling!

-- Dennis



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