Cyberspace

Beginning with a short foray into William Gibson's "Burning Chrome" (the story in which the term cyberspace was coined, and full of conspicuous references to gambling, chess, cards, etc), we'll tackle The Matrix, a franchise which just begs for college essays to be
written about it (right down to the strategic placement of Baudrillard's Simulation and Simulacra in Neo's hand, just before he sees the white rabbit). We won't do the full trilogy (should we?), but will consider The Animatrix and the interesting project of Matrix videogames.