Neuromancer a cut-up future?William S. Burroughs was an innovative writer who experimented with technology and the cut-up method in his postmodernist works. William Gibson follows suit with this clipping method in his groundbreaking postmodern science fiction novel Neuromancer, in which he uses a rapid flow of images and the disassociation of people from each other in a technologically advanced, corporate-controlled society. Burroughs wants “cuts to establish new connections between images, and as a result the field of vision widens” (Knickerbocker 3). Neuromancer manages to make those new connections in his carved out environment. Case was a cowboy hacker who was “a byproduct of youth and competence, inserted into a customized deck of cyberspace that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix” (Gibson 5). The technology in the matrix is ​​similar to the cutting technique pioneered by Burroughs 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 probably has rules that are not like in the human world, when hackers returned to being flesh. Hackers are outlaws, as some cowboys were in the old West, and they make their own rules in the matrix. Of course, when Case is captured by society, he loses his receptors and is captured in the real world, where he is no longer able to expand his vision and can only achieve his stream of consciousness through the use of drugs. Drugs were a topic Burroughs focused on. he 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... is half paper... and drugs. Cyberspace is compared to a religious nirvana, where consciousness can have revelations similar to religious experiences: “Do you want me to come to you in the matrix like a burning bush?” (Gibson 169). Finnish recognizes the religious dimensions of the matrix and draws comparisons with the Bible. Wintermute could therefore be an allusion to God, especially when he merges with Neuromancer and finds another artificial intelligence in Alpha Centauri, this could be seen as the Holy Trinity. Cyberspace could therefore be heaven, which would be further affirmed by the protagonist's desire to escape the flesh and his disdain for his carnal self, the "flesh." 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. Press.