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"Half cyberpunk anthology, half critical and philosophical discussion, all interesting.
Reading literary criticism from the early 90s about an 80's sci-fi movement may sound like omphaloskepsis, but as we (culturally) have moved into a thoroughly cyberpunk future it's an extremely useful lens through which to view concepts that have gone from high fiction to everyday interactions." — Jul 31, 2024 09:34AM
"Half cyberpunk anthology, half critical and philosophical discussion, all interesting.
Reading literary criticism from the early 90s about an 80's sci-fi movement may sound like omphaloskepsis, but as we (culturally) have moved into a thoroughly cyberpunk future it's an extremely useful lens through which to view concepts that have gone from high fiction to everyday interactions." — Jul 31, 2024 09:34AM
She wasn’t under any obligation to be polite to someone who thought she was his next victim.
The dissection of horror tropes through the eyes of women is a recurring theme in the book. I can kind of imagine reader's yelling "YES! THIS!" at multiple points in the story where Red flatly refuses to play to a stereotype.
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“And yet instead we struggle against a tide of Idiots, who through arrogance, greed, folly or lassitude, stand in the way of betterment and the common good.”
― Cathedral
― Cathedral
“Demagoguery is powerfully reduced when it stops getting people elected, and that usually happens because of in-group policing. Similarly, when it isn't profitable for a media outlet to engage in demagoguery, it won't, and that happens when its target market declines to put up with it. Individual demagogues are best stopped by in-group condemnation, and particular strains of demagoguery are generally ended by public shaming.”
― Demagoguery and Democracy
― Demagoguery and Democracy
“Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop.”
― Exit Strategy
― Exit Strategy
“And she thought: don’t trust love unless you can see what it costs the lover.”
― The Weight of Ink
― The Weight of Ink
“Like other diseases that arouse feelings of shame, AIDS is often a secret, but not from the patient. A cancer diagnosis was frequently concealed from patients by their families; an AIDS diagnosis is at least as often concealed from their families by patients.”
― AIDS and Its Metaphors
― AIDS and Its Metaphors
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