RE-THINKING VIRTUAL AND PHYSICAL SPACE THROUGH MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES IN WILLIAM GIBSON’S THE PERIPHERAL
RE-THINKING VIRTUAL AND PHYSICAL SPACE THROUGH MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES IN WILLIAM GIBSON’S THE PERIPHERAL

Summary/Abstract: This article sheds light on the ways in which the relationship between virtual and physical space is reconceptualized in the post-digital era within the context of mobile communication technologies and ubiquitous computing in William Gibson’s novel The Peripheral (2014). Important theoretical discussions took place in the 2010s with regard to how the virtual and the physical space are perceived compared to theories of the 1980s and 1990s. As a result, theories that viewed virtual reality as a parallel space are reconfigured by contemporary theorists, such as Jason Farman, Hidenori Tomita, Adrianna de Souza e Silva and Daniel M. Sutko, all of whom, in studying contemporary mobile media technologies, emphasize the hybridity and materiality of virtual space.

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