![]() ![]() Winnicott's - transitional object and the play space - are more useful. With Slick Henry, however, one of a series of artists in Gibson's fiction, certain concepts of D.W. The survey is inconclusive: Gibson proliferates images of prostheses in an exploratory fashion. This essay surveys the protagonists of Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) in the light of the concept of the prosthetic. ![]() Since Neuromancer, Gibson has turned increasingly to waiflike and vulnerable characters, and he has dramatized a conflict between the subject's vulnerability to control and invasion, and the subject's need for prostheses - people or things that mediate our relation to the world and enable us to cope with, for instance, loss. As William Gibson's MATRIX TRILOGY appeared, relations between the hard-boiled element and mystic events in cyberspace became increasingly strained, and the treatment of relations between subjects and objects more ambivalent and conflicted. ![]()
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