Resources

Here is a first shot at some resources related to Agrippa and Gibson:

REVIEWS
“A real page burner.”
By Gavin Edwards (Details, June ’92) Transcribed by Debaser
Sample quote: “William Gibson’s latest story costs $450, comes on disk, and self-destructs after one reading.”
http://www.textfiles.com/sf/cyberlit.txt
Provides a brief review of Agrippa: a Book of the Dead.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Maclean’s June 5, 1995
By Brian D. Johnson
Gibson, William Ford (Profile)
http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0010426
Straightforward biographical information about William Gibson. Might provide a nice complement to Gibson’s own biography featured on his website.

PRESS RELEASES/NEWS ITEMS
Scream Baby
http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/scream/6.txt
“You are Number Six”
Cyberlicious
February 13, 1993
Brief press release related to Agrippa.

Reading for Pleasure
Issue #23
Extra-Large 3rd Anniversary Issue
June 1992 / July 1992
Editor: Cindy Bartorillo
http://showcase.netins.net/web/chargerhorse/RFP-23.HTM
Brief press release related to Agrippa.

Locus Magazine (print)–I am in the process of tracking this down.

INTERVIEWS
Interview with Gibson, with references to Agrippa, by Karl E. Jirgens
In Eye Weekly
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_12.02.99/arts/books.html

Interview with Gibson, with emphasis on Agrippa, by Karl E. Jirgens
In Rampike (print–I am in the process of hunting this down)

PEOPLE RELATED TO THE PROJECT
James A. Doerfler–design consultant for Agrippa
Mentioned on James A. Doerfler’s Resume
http://www.optimumsearch.com.au/Canopy/Jim%20Doerfler.htm
Found this reference through a google search. Apparently, he worked as a design consultant on the project. Perhaps we should consider contacting him at some point?

SITES RELATED TO AGRIPPA AND GIBSON’S WORK IN GENERAL
William Gibson Alef
http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/gibson/gibson0.html
Site features information about many of Gibson’s popular works, as well as information related to Agrippa, inluding a few photographs of the work.

ACADEMIC/SCHOLARLY WORK RELATED TO AGRIPPA
“A Quick Note on Swift Current: the World’s First E-Journal”
By Karl E. Jirgens
From OL3: open letter on lines online (2000)
http://www.ubu.com/papers/ol/jirgens.html
Article references Agrippa in the context of digitial publishing.

Lines for a Virtual Ty/opography: Electronic Essays on Artifice and Information
By Matthew G. Kirshenbaum
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/dissertation/main.html
Kirshenbaum’s dissertation about the nature of on-line texts and virtual reading practice; references to Agrippa in Works Cited.

“Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Virtual Texts are Made Of” (2003)
By Matthew Kirschenbaum
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/
Article looks promising in terms of Agrippa; journal is currently down.