I’ve been thinking about yesterday’s class and how we discussed the overall theme of globalization and its portrayal in Pattern Recognition in different ways but mainly through cyberspace. That theme is pretty obvious when you think about how so much of the communication in the book is through email or blogs. The footage is discussed on the blog, Cayce uses email to contact the maker of the footage etc. Because this was the central theme I liked how the last chapter of the book was called mail, you find out what is going on in everyone’s lives through emails. We find out that Cayce’s phobia is gone through the email with her therapist etc. This seemed a bit predictable but fitting that the theme was cyberspace.

Gibson also described things in a technology/cyberspace/digital way. On page 187 (paperback) Cayce is describing how Marina looks, “She looks like, Cayce decides, like a prop from one sequel or another of The Matrix; if her boobs were bigger she could get work on the covers of role-playing games for adolescent boys of any age whatever.” Also the character that Parkaboy and Darryl make up, Keiko, is digitalized, she’s a digitally made Japanese schoolgirl. These are just other ways Gibson tied in his theme of cyberspace.