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"(...)
It wasn't a name he knew. Something new, something that had come in since he'd seen in Chiba. Fads swept the youth of the Spraw] at the speed of light; entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive for a dozen weeks, and then vanish utterly.
"Go," he said. The Hosaka had accessed its array of libraries, journals, and news services. The precis began with a long hold on a color still that Case at first assumed was a collage of some ind, a boy's face snipped from another image and glued to a photograph of a paint-scrawled wall. Dark eyes, epicanthic folds obviously the result of surgery, an angry dusting of acne across pale narrow cheeks. The Hosaka released the freeze; the boy moved, flowing with the sinister grace of a mime pretending to be a jungle predator. His body was nearly invisible, an abstract pattern approximating the scribbled brickwork sliding smoothly across his tight one piece. Mimetic polycarbon. Cut to Dr. Virginia Rambali, Sociology, NYU, her name, faculty, and school pulsing across the screen in pink alphanumerics.
"Given their penchant for these random acts of surreal violence," someone said, "it may be difficult for our viewers to understand why you continue to insist that this phenomenon isn't a form of terrorism." Dr. RamBali smiled. "There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is inately media-related. The Panther Moderns differ from other terrorists precisely in their degree of self-consciousness, in their awareness of the extent to which media divorce the act of terrorism from the original sociopolitical intent...."
"Skip it," Case said.
Case met his first Modern two days after he'd screened the Hosaka's precis. The Moderns, he'd decided, were a contemporary version of the Big Scientists of his own late teens. There was a kind of ghostly teenage DNA at work in the Sprawl, something that carried the coded precepts of various short-lived sub cults and replicated them at odd intervals. The Panther Moderns were a soft head variant on the Scientists. If the technology had been available the Big Scientists would all have had sockets stuffed with microsofts. It was the style that mattered and the style was the same. The Moderns were mercenaries, practical jokers, nihilistic technofetishists.
The one who showed up at the loft door with a box of diskettes from the Finn was a soft-voiced boy called Angelo. His face was a simple graft grown on collagen and sharkcartilage polysaccharides, smooth and hideous. It was one of the nastiest pieces of elective surgery Case had ever seen. When Angelo smiled, revealing the razor-sharp canines of some large animal, Case was actually relieved. Tooth bud transplants. He'd seen that before.
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William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
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nemo
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Mar,31.2005-02:24
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frost
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Mar,31.2005-09:30
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Mar,31.2005-09:56
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Mar,31.2005-10:24
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earx
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Mar,31.2005-12:08
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Chuck / Dune
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Mar,31.2005-16:59
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gwEm
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Mar,31.2005-18:51
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lotek style/tscc
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Mar,31.2005-19:08
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Chuck
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Mar,31.2005-19:49
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Adam Klobukowski
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Mar,31.2005-22:41
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Strider
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Apr,01.2005-18:16
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Apr,01.2005-21:24
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Strider
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Apr,02.2005-19:32
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earx
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Apr,01.2005-09:55
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NervE
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Apr,01.2005-10:43
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Apr,01.2005-12:59
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Mp3 version ?
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RaZ
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Apr,01.2005-14:23
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Apr,01.2005-15:16
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RaZ
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Apr,01.2005-16:47
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Apr,06.2005-10:55
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