I live and work in Naarm (commonly the city of Melbourne), on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations, and pay my respects to their elders—past, present and emerging—and acknowledge that the land I am on every day was stolen and sovereignty was never ceded.
I desperately wanted to like Neuromancer. It's been billed as the cyberpunk text, and Gibson coined many of the terms we still today associate with techy science fiction, like 'matrix', 'jacking in', even 'cyberspace' itself.
Read MoreWhat can I say about Fanon that hasn't already been said better than I ever will? The Wretched of the Earth is truly a seminal text for anyone who wishes to engage with ideas about decolonization and postcolonialism. Fanon is an astute and original thinker, and uses his experience as a psychotherapist to shine a harsh light on the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperalism.
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