The Blithedale Neuromance

Authors

  • Bruno Arich-Gerz University of Konstanz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.61

Abstract

Crossread with Hawthorne’s 1852 tale “The Blithedale Romance,“ mankind is in for “an era that would link soul to soul,“ i.e. an age where humans via the neurotechnical device of the biochip turn into Gibsonian neuromancers, and “melt into one great, mutually conscious brotherhood.“ Despite all its technological feasibility, however, the idea of a United State of neuronally interconnected communitarians has as yet remained mere theory, and thus mirrors  the essay’s own dilemma: lofty (media) theory here, questions of practicality there.  

Author Biography

  • Bruno Arich-Gerz, University of Konstanz
    CV Since 1998 member of the postgraduate program “Literary Theory and Theory of Communication“ at the University of Konstanz; Ph.D. project (to be finished by May, 2000): “Reader Response Under/As Observation. Outline of a Reading Model on the Basis of Luhmann’s Systems Theory and Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’“ 1993 M.A. at Cologne University

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Published

2012-07-23

Issue

Vol. 1 (2000)

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How to Cite

“The Blithedale Neuromance”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 1, July 2012, https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.61.