| Description |
xii, 125 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Preface: Virtual Futures / Eric J. Cassidy -- The Information War / Hakim Bey -- Theses on the Cyberotics of History: Venus in Microsoft, Remix / Stephen Pfohl -- Coming Across the Future / Sadie Plant -- All New Gen / VNS Matrix -- Telepathy: Alphabetic Consciousness and the Age of Cyborg Illiteracy / David Porush -- Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason / Manuel De Landa -- Cybergothic / Nick Land -- From Epidermal History to Speed Politics / Matteo Mandarini -- Black Ice / Iain Hamilton Grant -- Autogeddon / Stephen Metcalf -- From Psycho-Body to Cyber-Systems: Images as Post-Human Entities / Stelarc -- Postscript: Ground Zero / Joan Broadhurst Dixon |
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Preface: Virtual Futures / Eric J. Cassidy --The Information War / Hakim Bey -- Theses on the Cyberotics of History: Venus in Microsoft, Remix / Stephen Pfohl -- Coming Across the Future / Sadie Plant -- All New Gen / VNS Matrix -- Telepathy: Alphabetic Consciousness and the Age of Cyborg Illiteracy / David Porush -- Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason / Manuel De Landa -- Cybergothic / Nick Land -- From Epidermal History to Speed Politics / Matteo Mandarini -- Black Ice / Iain Hamilton Grant -- Autogeddon / Stephen Metcalf -- From Psycho-Body to Cyber-Systems: Images as Post-Human Entities / Stelarc -- Postscript: Ground Zero / Joan Broadhurst Dixon |
| Summary |
Explores the idea that the future lies in its ability to articulate the consequences of an increasingly synthetic and virtual world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| SUBJECT |
Information series. Technology http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84707263 -- Psychological aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011485
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| Subject |
Computers and civilization.
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Technology -- Psychological aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Cassidy, Eric J., 1967-
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Dixon, Joan Broadhurst, 1963-
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| LC no. |
97019274 |
| ISBN |
0415133793 (hc) |
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0415133807 (paperback) |
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