Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century

by Dery, Mark
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ISBN: 9780802135209
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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of the high-tech subcultures that both celebrate and critique our wired world: would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brainpower with smart drugs and mind machines, on-line swingers seeking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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Dery, Mark
  • ISBN: 9780802135209
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.05 x 1.05
  • Number Of Pages: 400
  • Publication Year: 1997

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