Table of Contents

Flame Wars / Mark Dery
New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000 / Vivian Sobchack
Techgnosis, Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information / Erik Davis
Agrippa, or, The Apocalyptic Book / Peter Schwenger
Gibson's Typewriter / Scott Bukatman
Virtual Surreality: Our New Romance with Plot Devices / Marc Laidlaw
Chapter 14, Synners / Pat Cadigan
Feminism for the Incurably Informed / Anne Balsamo
Sex, Memories, and Angry Women / Claudia Springer
Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose / Mark Dery
Compu-Sex: Erotica for Cybernauts / Gareth Branwyn
A Rape in Cyberspace; or, How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society / Julian Dibbell
Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason / Manuel de Landa
Survival Research Laboratories Performs in Austria / Mark Pauline
Taming the Computer / Gary Chapman
Glossary / Emily White
Index
Notes on Contributors

About the Author

Mark Dery is a cultural critic whose writings on technology and fringe culture have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Wired, and Mondo 2000.

Reviews

"[C]onsistently smart and bold in its analysis. . . . [I]t will make you conscious of the many assumptions you bring to understanding this new cultural space, as well as make you aware of the complex of ideas that have combined in the making of a more general cyberculture."
--Don Palm, "H-Net Book Reviews"

"Like it or not, we are becoming a culture more and more entwined in new electronic media. To be a well-informed and culturally aware person you need to start thinking about how our society relates to these media. "Flame Wars" is a great place to start."
--Caius van Nauhuys, "Whole Earth Review"

"Most [cybercrit] is pure hype. "Flame Wars" is different. "Flame Wars" is better. "Flame Wars" is like jacking into the heart of microprocessor darkness itself, like online surfing the Net Edge of the postmodern tidal wave. . . . Let the flame wars burn."
--Andrew Leonard," The Bay Guardian"