Von Ziegesar, Peter. “You Can Read This Book Only Once.”

Kansas City Star 11 Dec. 1992: F5.

Description of an exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute organized around the Agrippa broadcast. (more…)

Sponsler, Claire. “William Gibson and the Death of Cyberpunk.”

Modes of the Fantastic : Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ed. Robert A. Latham and Robert A. Collins. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995.

This essay considers William Gibson’s sprawl trilogy in the context of postmodern discourse. (more…)

Schwenger, Peter. “Agrippa, or, The Apocalyptic Book.”

South Atlantic Quarterly Fall 1993: 617-626.

This issue of South Atlantic Quarterly is devoted to discussions of cyberculture, and features a literary analysis of Agrippa. (more…)

Roberts, Adam. Science Fiction.

London: Routledge, 2000.

Book features a chapter entitled “Technology and Metaphor,” and including a chapter section about Gibson: “Case study: William Gibson, Neuromancer.” (more…)

Rapatzikou, Tatiani G. Gothic Motifs in the Fiction of William Gibson.

Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.

Ralls Collection.com. “About Dennis Ashbaugh.”

Retrieved 31 August 2005. http://www.rallscollection.com/bios/ashbaugh_bio.html

Ralls Collection offers biographical information about Dennis Ashbaugh, as well as 31 images of the artist’s mixed-media work.

Quittner, Josh. “When Art Resembles National Security” (Sidebar).

Newsday 16 June 1992. Retrieved 31 Aug. 2005. http://eserver.org/cyber/newsday.txt

News article about technologically-enabled texts, including Agrippa; also features a sidebar about the specific code used to generate Agrippa’s self-encrypting text. (more…)

Quittner, Josh. “Read Any Good Webs Lately?”

Newsday 16 June 1992. Retrieved 31 Aug. 2005: 63. http://eserver.org/cyber/newsday.txt

News article about technologically-enabled texts, including Agrippa; also features a sidebar about the specific code used to generate Agrippa‘s self-encrypting text. (more…)

Quittner, Joshua. “‘Webs’: Avant-Garde Storytelling On Computer.”

St Louis Post-Dispatch 24 June 1992: 1F.

Article discusses the expectations and considerations surrounding hypertext at the time of Agrippa‘s release, including comments from George Landow. (more…)

Neale, Mark, dir. No Maps for These Territories

DVD cover  DVD back cover

Perf. William Gibson. Mark Neale Productions, 2000.

DVD documentary video features William Gibson on a road trip across North America, starting from Los Angeles. U2’s Bono reads from Neuromancer, and Bruce Sterling and Jack Womack fade in and out of the car where Gibson carries on an extended interview while literally moving down the “information superhighway,” and also down strip roads and backstreets. (Website for documentary)
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