{"id":3788,"date":"2008-06-12T18:39:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2008-06-12T18:39:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T22:39:41","slug":"william_gibson_on_dystopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/william_gibson_on_dystopia\/","title":{"rendered":"william gibson, on dystopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Annalee Newitz and I love William Gibson, so of course I love Annalee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5015137\/william-gibson-talks-to-io9-about-canada-draft-dodging-and-godzilla\">interview with him on io9<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>None of us ever live in dystopia. That&#8217;s an imaginary extreme. They just live in shitty cultures. And these societies [in my books] seem dystopian to middle class white people in North America. They don&#8217;t seem dystopian if you live in Rio or anywhere in Africa. Most people in Africa would happily immigrate to the Sprawl.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think a writer can hit the dystopic key without being misanthropic. I&#8217;m actually not misanthropic. I think people are capable of wonderful things. I&#8217;m quite fond of them and enjoy their company. I can&#8217;t do Jonathan Swift. I don&#8217;t have it in me to do that. I also don&#8217;t have it in me to say to reader, \u201cThis is all real.\u201d I&#8217;m enough of a postmodernist that I go in and out of believing in my own narrative. The happy endings, such as they, are are actually a function of that. They&#8217;re the &#8220;that&#8217;s all folks\u201d at the end, waving the big three-fingered glove. I want to remind people that they&#8217;re reading a novel about an imaginary future. If I had my way, I&#8217;d even be reminding people about the whole culture of reminding people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Annalee Newitz and I love William Gibson, so of course I love Annalee&#8217;s interview with him on io9 today: None of us ever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheesedip","category-movable-type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}