The Re/Shaping of the Posthuman, Cyberspace, and Histories

William Gibson s Bridge trilogy is concerned with
information technologies and the media s ambiguous
impact on current society. The last two episodes of
the Bridge series tell a story of a near-future
where human, posthuman, and transhuman beings
interact in a realm between physical space and
cyberspace and through feedback loops of network
relations. The posthuman and cyberspace ontology
generate subversive discourses that shatter
capitalist totality, phantasmagoria, and the Logos.
The global circulation of media and information
renders various ways to understand the world fast and
wide, but also distorts the realities and how we see
the world as it is. If we treat the Bridge trilogy as
fragments of stories or myths (since Science
Fiction is based on its unrealistic portraying of the
near future) that are told and emerge constantly in
the industry of literature, then the Bridge trilogy
can be seen as a part of the project of writing myth
into history. By retelling myths that are projected
in utopian space, we are writing a fiction into
history in the process of unpacking a metaphor in
science fiction. This is the messianic power of
fiction in shaping future history.