“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” – William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984). Regarded as the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, through...
Emerson was a 19th century American philosopher, essayist, and abolitionist. In the 1830s, through his writings and speeches which criticised society for its unthinking conformity, he laid down the foundation of ‘transcendentalism’ – a literary, philosophical, and religious school of thought. Transcendentalism believes in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of humanity, and urges each person to find, in Emerson’s words, “an original relation to the universe” rather than one dictated by society’s retrospectives.
