Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
- Author
- Mark Dery
- Publisher / Label
- Grove Press
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Publication year
- 1997
- Type of publication
- Book
- Number of pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 9780802115805
Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Escape Velocity 1 1 Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In: Cyberdelia 19 2 Metal Machine Music: Cyberpunk Meets the Black Leather Synth-Rockers 73 3 Waging a Tinkerer's War: Mechanical Spectacle 109 4 Ritual Mechanics: Cybernetic Body Art 151 5 RoboCopulation: Sex Times Technology Equals the Future 181 6 Cyborging the Body Politic: Obsolete Bodies and Posthuman Beings 227 A Comment on Sources 321 Notes 323 Index 361