{"id":434,"date":"2006-01-31T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith2.umd.edu\/?p=15"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:08:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:08:47","slug":"feb-7th-digital-dialogue-william-gibsons-pattern-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/feb-7th-digital-dialogue-william-gibsons-pattern-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/7 Digital Dialogue: William Gibson&#8217;s Pattern Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MITH&#8217;s first Digital Dialogue of the spring 2006 semester will be a discussion of William Gibson&#8217;s novel <em>Pattern Recognition<\/em> (2003), on Tuesday, Feb. 7th at our usual 12:30 time in the MITH seminar room. Anyone with an interest in the book is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pattern Recognition<\/em> has been widely received as Gibson&#8217;s most significant and prescient work since he coined the term &#8220;cyberspace&#8221; in 1984. &#8220;We have no future because the present is too volatile,&#8221; observes one character. &#8220;We have only risk management. The spinning of a given moment&#8217;s scenarios. Pattern recognition.&#8221; But how do we tell the difference between pattern and coincidence? Is pattern recognition enabling or constraining? What kind of patterns emerge in a novel about digital art, Web memes, global capital, viral marketing, a postmodern advertising agency, cool hunters, and collectors of antiquarian computing equipment in settings from London to Tokyo to Moscow to post-9\/11 New York? Our discussion will be the basis for three additional Digital Dialogues, to be held at intervals throughout the semester, each of which will explore the general theme of &#8220;pattern recognition&#8221;&#8211;a heuristic for much of MITH&#8217;s current research&#8211;in varied contexts. We look forward to seeing you at any or all of these.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the pattern recognition sessions, we have speakers and events planned for Digital Dialogues for just about every Tuesday in the spring semester&#8211;always at 12:30. Plan to make Digital Dialogues a part of your intellectual week and watch for the full schedule very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MITH&#8217;s first Digital Dialogue of the spring 2006 semester will be a discussion of William Gibson&#8217;s novel <i>Pattern Recognition<\/i> (2003), on Tuesday, Feb. 7th at our usual 12:30 time in the MITH seminar room. 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