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There's a thread on Pattern recognition here Dosis - you might want to add your comments there.C + P mine below if you like. The ssearch facility is at the bottom of the "header" page for weach froum.
Personally, I liked the feel of London in PR. Didn't feel totally accurate to me, but there was enough in there that I did recognise to satisfy. To use Gibson's conceit, it felt a bit like a "mirror world" - that's turn of phrase I really like seems to sum up the differences/collapse of difference experienced while travelling really well.
I think he's defintely trying to encompass these differences and similarites in his writing - check the opening paragraph about jetlag, even the book's title. I think he's refering to the way the world is becoming the same under global capitalism (branding etc), but showing us how points of difference are preserved and is evoking what they "feel" like - he incongrunity of the mirror world. From what I've read of him elsewhere, he thinks it's very important to preserve or allow for differences or interstitial spaces where media/glabalsised culture isn't dominant, a space to allow something else to grow. |
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