William Gibson's Pattern Recognition: Jet-Lagged Intimations of the Present

Abstract

This paper is a commentary of William Gibson's novel Pattern Recognition (2003) with special emphasis on the ideology of postmodernity and networked globalization, on issues of symbolism and on the reflexive dimension of pattern recognition in the narrative semiotics of the novel and its aesthetic project.

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Keywords: Gibson; Postmodernity; Apophenia; Reflexivity; Globalization;