Index
Table Of Contents
Clicking In and Clicking On: Hot Links to a Digital Culture / Lynn Hershman Leeson
A Plain Text on Crypto-Policy / John Perry Barlow 5
Introduction to The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses / Mark Ludwig 19
Feminisations: Reflections on Women and Virtual Reality / Sadie Plant 37
Interviewed by Lynn Hershman Leeson / Jaron Lanier 43
Interviewed by Lynn Hershman Leeson / R. U. Sirius 54
The Net and the Future of Being Fictive / Sheldon Renan 61
Computer Use in Law and Medicine / Arthur H. Lester 73
Interviewed by Lynn Hershman Leeson / Joichi Ito, Mizuko Ito 78
Interviewed by Lynn Hershman Leeson / Sandy Stone 105
Rethinking Identity Through Virtual Community / Sherry Turkle 116
The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics / Sadie Plant 123
Organizing Random Chance / Christian Moller 136
Window Dressing / Mette Stromfeldt 140
Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net / John Perry Barlow 148
The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier (or The Chicano Interneta) / Guillermo Gomez-Pena 173
The Labor of Perception / Lev Manovich 183
Attack on the Brain: Reflections on Neurotechnology / Florian Rotzer 194
Artificial Life Meets Entertainment: Lifelike Autonomous Agents / Pattie Maes 210
Pain and Subjectivity in Virtual Reality / Diana Gromala 222
Virtual Catastrophe: Will Self-Reproducing Software Rule the World? / Mark Ludwig 238
Code Warriors: Bunkering In and Dumbing Down / Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker 247
Fungal Intimacy: The Cyborg in Feminism and Media Art / Catherine Richards 258
Hot Spots: Text in Motion and the Textscape of Electronic Media / Rudolf Frieling 267
From Participation to Interaction: Toward the Origins of Interactive Art / Soke Dinkla 279
Dionysus in Wonderland: A Few Musical Metaphors in Techno-Culture / Jean Gagnon 291
Digitalian Treasures, or Glimpses of Art on the CD-ROM Frontier / Erkki Huhtamo 306
Multimedia, CD-ROM, and the Net / Simon Biggs 318
Romancing the Anti-Body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space / Lynn Hershman Leeson 325
7 Items on the Net / Siegfried Zielinski 338
Radical Software Redux / David A. Ross 344
Notes 349
Contributors 362
Credits 370
