For Monday, write a proposal for an imaginative map of Neuromancer that uses "The Agency of Mapping" as a tool for mapping its ageographical and geographical space. Draw on "The Agency of Mapping," the essay by Gibson on "Meta-Cities" as well as previous blog posts.
Mapping Neuromancer consists of both geographical and ageographical spaces. Without mapping out Neuromancer, the readers would probably have a hard time understanding the layout of it. Geographically the map would include the layout of where the streets and the location of a place would be at. Such as riding a subway, the layout would be set up with street names, dots, and specific train colors on the map (knowing what train to get on by asking someone what color train gets to ones destination). Also when looking at a map in general, there would be lines and path on how long it will take to get you there. There are also transportation, buildings, and people that could help map out geographically of Neuromancer.
Ageographically there would be the Matrix. The Matrix would include technology and power to go into a different world. Going into a different changes the mapping in a different way. It includes new areas, new names of streets, people, buildings, etc. There would be unexpected (unrealistic) use of technology to transport one to places or maybe technologies implanted on humans like the train station that travels far out into space or transportation of body. There would also be the ROM, the hologram, and other use of technologies in Neuromancer that would ageographically map out the layout of the book.
quote: pg 228: "A particularly important aspect of mapping in the regard is the acknowledgement of the maker's own participation and engagement with the cartographic process."
I understand fairly well your vision of how you would map the geographic aspects of Neuromancer (although it needs specific quotes to be concrete), but it is less clear what you are talking about when you refer to mapping the book's ageographic elements. What specific elements would you map and how? Consider what specific moments in the book (quotes from Neuromancer) you would use to plot your map and through what operations (quotes from Corner). [=2]
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