Seven years after the events of Neuromancer, strange things begin to happen in the Matrix, leading to the proliferation of what appear to be voodoo gods (hinted to be the fractured remains of the joined AIs that were Neuromancer and Wintermute). The magazine version was edited to contain less swearing and sexual content. The January cover is devoted to the story, with art by Hisaki Yasuda.

It is the second volume of the Sprawl trilogy, which begins with Neuromancer and concludes with Mona Lisa Overdrive, and is an example of the cyberpunk subgenre.Ĭount Zero was serialized by Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in the 1986 January (100th issue), February and March issues, accompanied by black and white art produced by J. This paper traces both the transgressive and conservative dimensions of popular images of fetishized technomasculinities and suggests how a postmodern technofetishism might provide new possibilities for breaking down old cultural hierarchies.Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986. Both fantasies confirm that masculinity is not natural, but is performed and constructed through technological props, and both types of masculinity-one hypermasculine and the other feminized by technological prosthetics-are in excess of traditional notions of masculinity. On th other hand, these fantasized fetishized masculinities are transgressive of gender norms. Thus these fetishistic fantasies can be seen, to some extent, to recuperate patriarchal authority in a posthuman context. In these texts, technoparts function as fetishes by disavowing male lack and the feminization of the male subject in postmodern discourse. It argues that, despite their differences, these two models of cybermasculinity suggest a technofetishization of the white, heterosexual male body in a discourse of postmodernism where the privilege of that identity is purportedly under siege, experiencing itself as relative, rather than universal, partial rather than complete. Drawing on pop-culture images of hypermasculine cyborgs and cyberpunk's 'jacked-in' console cowboys, this paper will argue, by foregrounding a fetishized technomasculinity, that these images suggest a critique of the rigid gender dichotomy of orthodox theories of fetishism in which the fetishist is always masculine and the fetishized subject is always feminine.

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