Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century

Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century

by Mark Dery
Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century

Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century

by Mark Dery

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Overview

An Unforgettable Journey into the Dark Heart of the Information Age

In Escape Velocity Mark Dery takes is on an electrifying tour of the high-tech subcultures that both celebrate and critique our wired world: would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brainpower with smart drugs and mind machines, on-line swingers seeking cybersex on electronic bulletin boards, techno-primitives who sport "biomechanical" tattoos of computer circuitry; and cyberpunk roboticists whose Mad Max contraptions duel to the death before howling crowds.

Timely, trenchant, and provocative, Escape Velocity is the first truly critical inquiry into cyberculture-essential reading for everyone interested in computer culture and the shape of things to come.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802135209
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date: 08/05/1997
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
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