A third of the way through my re-read of Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, and I can't help but think there's an entire thesis to be written on the "commodification of life/life is commodification" aspects of Gibson's book and Tom McCarthy's Remainder. Both books deal with the meaning of money in its being the power to produce life via the purchase/deployment of simulacra. Never mind the order-vs-chaos theme shared by the two books, and how that theme is made manifest in the financial aspects of the respective stories.
(Just thinking out loud.)
(Actually, it's a little bit freaky how well all the books I've read this year have seemed to fit together, one after the other, responding to each other in happenstance fashion, until I've gotten one place from someplace entirely different. Pattern recognition, indeed.)
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