![]() ![]() He’s one of my favorite writers, and ever since I started reading him as a teen, his anti-corporate, fascinated-but-frightened brand of scifi has been kind of a touchstone. ![]() Specifically, it envisions a distant future in which a small aristocratic percentage of the population survives-relying on technology that surged forward during a global crisis-while the remaining 80% of the population is, I regret to inform you, extremely dead.įor some reason, I tend to set aside new books by my favorite authors, but his latest Agency just came out as a sort of sequel to The Peripheral so I figured I better catch up. (conceptual, if not plot spoilers, ahead) In particular, his 2014 novel The Peripheral takes his famous premise that “the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed,” to its extreme conclusion in an era of accelerating ecological disaster. I’m going to write about William Gibson today, for the second time in this newsletter, because while he is best known for a book from the 1980s that sort of predicted the internet, his unique perspectives on time, technology, and inequality feel more relevant to me than they have in years. Living on the brink of oil stained societal collapse, everything going wrong in 20 different directions Zebra and Parachute 1930 Christopher Wood 1901-1930 Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Tate 2004 Ĭhristopher Wood, Zebra and Parachute, 1930, © Tate, CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 ![]()
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