You will write a 1,100-1,300-word critical thinking piece discussing how surveillance, technology, globalization, and spirituality intersect in Spook Country.
Questions: How does the novel imagine (and problematize) the idea of our globalized present? How do the characters’ actions and emotional responses complicate our understanding of interactive, digital interfaces? In what way does the book critique domestic surveillance in a post-9-/11 reality? How does Gibson use “ghosts” and other spectral features to enrich (or destabilize) the atmosphere of the novel? How does the conclusion impact the strength of these symbolic and cultural threads that bind the novel together? And then, of course, so what? What do we do with this information? How does the novel tell us something about ourselves, or about our culture?
