- 402 pages
- English
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About this book
"Without a doubt the best guide I have read to the new computer cultureĀ .Ā .Ā . witty and provocativeĀ .Ā .Ā . sane and thoughtful" (J. G. Ballard).
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"A lively compendium of dispatches from the far reaches of today's computer savvy avant-garde", Escape Velocity explores the dawn of the Information Age, and the high-tech subcultures that celebrated, critiqued, and gave birth to our wired world and a counterculture digital underground ( The New York Times Book Review). Poised between technological rapture and social rupture, Escape Velocity poses the fundamental question of our time: Is technology liberating or enslaving us in the twenty-first century?
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Mark Dery takes us on an electrifying tour of the high-tech underground. Investigating the shadowy byways of cyberculture, we meet would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyberhippies who boost their brainpower with smart drugs and mind machines, techno-primitives who sport "biomechanical" tattoos of computer circuitry, and cyberpunk roboticists whose dystopian contraptions duel to the death before howling crowds.
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"Re-prov[ing] Dery an astute and trustworthy patrolman of the cultural and social borderland between science fiction and non-fiction", Escape VelocityĀ stands alone as the first trulyĀ criticalĀ inquiry into cyberculture ( Wired). Shifting the focus of our conversation about technology from the corridors of power to disparate voices on the cultural fringes, Dery wires it into the power politics and social issues of the moment. It is essential reading for everyone interested in computer culture and the shape of things to come.
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"A lively compendium of dispatches from the far reaches of today's computer savvy avant-garde", Escape Velocity explores the dawn of the Information Age, and the high-tech subcultures that celebrated, critiqued, and gave birth to our wired world and a counterculture digital underground ( The New York Times Book Review). Poised between technological rapture and social rupture, Escape Velocity poses the fundamental question of our time: Is technology liberating or enslaving us in the twenty-first century?
Ā
Mark Dery takes us on an electrifying tour of the high-tech underground. Investigating the shadowy byways of cyberculture, we meet would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyberhippies who boost their brainpower with smart drugs and mind machines, techno-primitives who sport "biomechanical" tattoos of computer circuitry, and cyberpunk roboticists whose dystopian contraptions duel to the death before howling crowds.
Ā
"Re-prov[ing] Dery an astute and trustworthy patrolman of the cultural and social borderland between science fiction and non-fiction", Escape VelocityĀ stands alone as the first trulyĀ criticalĀ inquiry into cyberculture ( Wired). Shifting the focus of our conversation about technology from the corridors of power to disparate voices on the cultural fringes, Dery wires it into the power politics and social issues of the moment. It is essential reading for everyone interested in computer culture and the shape of things to come.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Escape Velocity
- 1: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In: Cyberdelia
- 2: Metal Machine Music: Cyberpunk Meets the Black Leather Synth-Rockers
- 3: Waging a Tinkererās War: Mechanical Spectacle
- 4: Ritual Mechanics: Cybernetic Body Art
- 5: RoboCopulation: Sex Times Technology Equals the Future
- 6: Cyborging the Body Politic: Obsolete Bodies and Posthuman Beings
- A Comment on Sources
- Notes
- Index