Neuromancer a cut-up future?William S. Burroughs was an innovative writer who experimented with the technology and method of cut-up in his postmodernist works. William Gibson follows suit with this method of cutting in his groundbreaking post-modernist science fiction novel Neuromancer, in which he uses a rapid flow of images and the dissociation of people from each other in a technologically advanced and controlled society by businesses. Burroughs wants “cut-outs allow new connections to be established between images, and the field of vision thus widens” (Knickerbocker 3). Neuromancer succeeds in establishing these new connections in its cut-out environment. Case was a cowboy hacker who was "a byproduct of youth and skill, connected to a personalized cyberspace game that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the Matrix" (Gibson 5). The die technology is similar to the cutting technique that Burroughs experimented with at the turn of the century. The protagonist is alienated because of the technology that exists in the Matrix, which is an unstable environment and likely has rules that are not those of the human world, when hackers have become meat again. Hackers are outlaws, like some cowboys of the Old West, and make their own rules in the Matrix. Of course, when Case is caught by society, he loses his receptors and finds himself stuck in the real world, where he is unable to expand his vision and can only achieve his stream of consciousness through drug use. was asked in his interview, as it was stated that he "believed that heroin was necessary to transform the human body into an environment that includes the universe." However, despite this, he ...... middle of paper ...... and drugs. Cyberspace is compared to a religious nirvana, in which consciousness can have revelations similar to religious experiences: “Do you want me to come to you in the womb like a burning bush? (Gibson 169). The Finn recognizes the religious dimensions of the matrix and makes biblical comparisons. Wintermute could therefore be an allusion to God, especially when he merges with Neuromancer and finds another artificial intelligence in Alpha Centauri, this one could be considered the Holy Trinity. Cyberspace could then be a paradise, which would be further affirmed by the protagonist's desire to escape the flesh and his contempt for his carnal self, the "meat." Works Cited Gibson, William. Neuromancer. New York: Penguin, 1984. Print. Knickerbocker, Conrad. “Interview with William S. Burroughs.” Paris Review, Writers at Work. 3. (1967): n. page. Print.