Transcendence Of The Body In William Gibson's Neuromancer

The concept of humanity erasing its bodily functions is a collective societal globalised consciousness in early cyberculture, which described a utopian existence in the future where the possibility of the release from the body could be realised by technology, as exemplified in the book by William Gibson, Neuromancer. Contemporary cyberculture has created a distorted illusion of the possibility of bodily escape but it has also opened up infinite idealisms of opportunities for the reinterpretation of the body. Gibson’s book is analysed as the attempt for the wish fulfilment where technology realises the desiring for the escape from the corpus, however such an actualisation is not defined by understanding the body from the situation of its current existing …show more content…
The transcendence of the body in the cyberspace fiction of Gibson’s book traces back to the ‘mechanical Cartesian universe’ and is deeply engrained in the psychology of Western consciousness and it shows the dualism of the body and the mind as Gibson’s writing acknowledges the body-mind