Edited by Mark Dery. A special issue of The South Atlantic Quarterly , 92:4, Fall 1993.
ISBN 0-8223-6400-X (US pbk), ISSN 0038-2876
non-fiction, essays, cyberculture, cyberpunk, identity, culture, posthuman, future, Samuel R.Delany, Pat Cadigan, Marc Laidlaw, Mark Pauline, Mark Dery, Gareth Branwyn, Scott Bukatman, Claudia Springer, social history, edge, 1990s
Edited by Mark Dery. A special issue of The South Atlantic Quarterly , 92:4, Fall 1993.
"New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000" by Vivian Sobchack;
"Techgnosis, Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information" by Erik Davis;
"Agrippa, or, The Apocalyptic Book" by Peter Schwenger
(see Agrippa by William Gibson);
"Gibson's Typewriter" by Scott Bukatman;
"Virtual Surreality: Our New Romance with Plot Devices" by Marc Laidlaw;
"Chapter 14, Synners" by Pat Cadigan
(extract from her novel, Synners );
"Feminism for the Incurably Informed" by Anne Balsamo;
"Sex, Memories, and Angry Women" by Claudia Springer;
"Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delaney, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose" by Mark Dery;
"Compu-Sex: Erotica for Cybernauts" by Gareth Branwyn;
"Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason" by Manuel De Silva;
"Survival Research Laboratories Performs in Austria" by Mark Pauline;
"Taming the Computer" by Gary Chapman.
Glossary;
Notes on Contributors.
"This book is crucial reading: it will change how you view the future." --Steve G.Steinberg (in Wired, January 1995).
"An excellent collection of thought-provoking essays." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
Highly recommended.
To reach Mark Dery himself:
e-mail:
markdery@well.sf.ca.us
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