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194. Ibid.
195. R. A. Chase and Joseph M. Rosen, “Microsurgery: The Future,” in The Hand and Upper Limb Series, vol. 8: Microsurgery Procedures, ed. D. E. Meyer and M. J. M. Black (New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1991), pp. 261, 264, 265.
196. Bruce Sterling, “Swarm,” in Crystal Express, p. 15.
197. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (New York: W. W. Norton, 1961), pp. 38-39.
198. Jude Milhon, “Coming In under the Radar: Bruce Sterling Interviewed by Jude Milhon,” Mondo 2000, no. 7, p. 100.
199. Hine, Facing Tomorrow, p. 43.
200. Jeffrey Deitch, Post Human (Hamburg, Germany: Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 1992), second page of introductory essay (not numbered).
201. Ibid., unnumbered pages.
202. Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature (Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1992), p. 28.
203. Michael Hutchison, Mega Brain Power: Transform Your Life with Mind Machines and Brain Nutrients (New York: Hyperion, 1994), p. 429.
204. Stewart Brand, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T. (New York: Penguin, 1988), p. 200.
205. K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (New York: Anchor, 1986), p. 234.
206. Grant Fjermedal, The Tomorrow Makers: A Brave New World of Living-Brain Machines (Redmond, Wash.: Tempus Books, 1986), p. 8.
207. Scott Bukatman, “Who Programs You? The Science Fiction of the Spectacle,” in Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Annette Kuhn (New York: Verso, 1990), p. 203.
208. Rodley, ed., Cronenberg on Cronenberg, p. 79; Scorsese is interviewed in Chris Rodley’s 1986 documentary on Cronenberg, Long Live the New Flesh.
209. Pat Cadigan, “Pretty Boy Crossover,” in Patterns (Kansas City, Mo.: Ursus Imprints, 1989), p. 129.
210. Jean Baudrillard, “The Precession of Simulacra,” in Simulations, trans. Paul Foss, Paul Patton, and Philip Beitchman (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983), p. 11.
211. Ballard, Crash, p. 1.
212. Ibid., p. 39.
213. Bruce Sterling, “Sunken Gardens,” in Crystal Express, p. 89.
214. Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix (New York: Ace, 1985), p. 237.
215. Ibid., p. 183.
216. Ibid., pp. 282-83.
217. Ibid., pp. 286-87.
218. Ibid., p. 287.
219. Vernor Vinge, “Technological Singularity,” Whole Earth Review, no. 81 (winter 1993), p. 89.
220. Ibid.
221. William Burroughs, “Dinosaurs,” The Dial-a-Poem Poets / Better an Old Demon than a New God (Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 033), LP.
222. Ibid.
223. Ibid.
224. Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 230.
225. Ibid., p. 231.
226. Ibid., p. 232.
227. Ibid.
228. Hans Moravec, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 6.
229. Ibid., p. 102.
230. Ibid., p. 107.
231. Ibid., p. 112.
232. Ibid., p. 114.
233. David Ross, “Persons, Programs, and Uploading Consciousness,” Extropy 4, no. 1 (9), p. 14.
234. Ibid., p. 16.
235. Max More, “Technological Self-Transformation: Expanding Personal Extropy,” Extropy 10, pp. 17, 20.
236. Norman Spinrad, Science Fiction in the Real World (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), p. 133.
237. Ibid., p. 127.
238. More, “Self-Transformation,” p. 17; Stelarc, Obsolete Body /Suspensions / Stelarc (Davis, Calif.: J. P. Publications, 1984), p. 76.
239. More, “Self-Transformation,” p. 16; “Join Us on the Leading Edge of the Evolutionary Wave as We Build a Better Future!” undated flyer from the Extropy Institute.
240. “Sacred or For Sale?” in The Harper’s Forum Book: What Are We Talking About? ed. Jack Hitt (New York: Citadel Press, 1991), p. 307.
241. Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1986), p. 140.
242. Max More, “Transhumanism: Towards a Futurist Philosophy,” Extropy, no. 6 (summer 1990), p. 8.
243. Ibid.
244. Ibid., p. 23.
245. More, “Self-Transformation,” p. 23.
246. Ibid., p. 24.
247. Max More, “Extropy Institute Launches,” Extropy 9, p. 9.
248. All quotes this paragraph from Queen Mu and R. U. Sirius, editorial, Mondo 2000, no. 7, p. 11.
249. Andrew Ross, Strange Weather, p. 163.
250. Spinrad, Science Fiction, p. 129.
251. David Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), pp. 251-52.
252. Vinge, “Technological Singularity,” p. 95.
253. Pamela McCorduck, Machines Who Think (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1979), pp. 354-55.
254. Ibid., p. 355.
255. Gareth Branwyn, “The Desire to Be Wired,” p. 62.
256. Allucquere Rosanne Stone, “Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories about Virtual Cultures,” in Cyberspace: First Steps, ed. Michael Benedikt (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991), p. 111.
257. Vivian Sobchack, “Baudrillard’s Obscenity,” Science-Fiction Studies, vol. 18, no. 55, part 3 (November 1991), p. 327.
258. Ibid., pp. 327-28.
259. Jean Baudrillard, “Ballard’s Crash,” Science-Fiction Studies, pp. 313, 319.
260. Sobchack, “Baudrillard’s Obscenity,” p. 329.
261. Michael Berenbaum, The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993), p. 147.
262. Ballard, Crash, p. 205.
263. Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken, 1969), p. 244.
264. Michael Synergy, “Hurtling towards the Singularity: Vernor Vinge Interviewed by Michael Synergy,” Mondo 2000, no. 7 (fall 1989), p. 116.
265. Hitt, ed., The Harper’s Forum Book, p. 317.
266. Ibid., p. 322.
267. Andrew Ross, Strange Weather, p. 70.
268. Whole Earth Review, no. 63 (summer 1989), p. 53.
269. Moravec, Mind Children, p. 102; Hine, Facing Tomorrow, pp. 155-56.
270. Edward O. Wilson, “Is Humanity Suicidal?” New York Times Magazine, May 30, 1993, pp. 26-27.
271. Ibid., p. 27.
272. Michael G. Zey, Seizing the Future: How the Coming Revolution in Science, Technology, and Industry Will Expand the Frontiers of Human Potential and Reshape the Planet (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 45.
273. Ibid.
274. Ibid., pp. 45, 368.
275. Ibid., p. 369.
276. Queen Mu and R. U. Sirius, editorial, Mondo 2000, no. 7, p. 11.
277. Ross, Strange Weather, p. 5.
278. Ibid., p. 12.
279. Ibid., p. 191.
280. Constance Penley and Andrew Ross, “Cyborgs at Large: Interview with Donna Haraway,” Technoculture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), p. 16; Zey, Seizing the Future, p. 109.
281. Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964), p. 207.
282. Fjermedal, Tomorrow Makers, p. 5.
283. Hine, Facing Tomorrow, pp. 154-55.
284. Fjermedal, Tomorrow Makers, p. 202.
285. Quoted in Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (New York: Vintage, 1991), p. 17.
286. O. B. Hardison, Jr., Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century (New York: Penguin, 1989), p. 347.
287. Ibid.
288. Charles Platt, The Silicon Man (New York: Bantam Spectra, 1991), p. 232.
289. William H. Cal
vin, The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain (New York: Bantam, 1991), p. 59.
290. Ibid., p. xvii.
291. Erich Harth, The Creative Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993), p. 131.
292. David Ross, “Persons, Programs, and Uploading Consciousness,” p. 15.
293. Richard Restak, M.D., The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own: Insights from a Practicing Neurologist (New York: Harmony Books, 1991), p. 119.
294. David Ross, “Persons, Programs, and Uploading Consciousness,” p. 16.
295. Cadigan, Synners, p. 406.
INDEX
Actuate/Rotate: Event for Virtual Body, 156
Adams, Henry, 187–88
Adams, Judith A., 149
Advanced Animation, 142
Advertising, 142, 176, 238
at Disney theme parks, 144–45
sex and, 184, 188, 279
Agee, James, 123
AIDS, 173, 218, 219, 225, 233–34, 281
Aitchison, Guy, 282
Albrecht, Bob, 26
Allen, Judith, 237
Allen, Woody, 199
“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace,” 30
America Online, 5, 200, 202
Amtrak Express, 223–24
Anderson, Laurie, 234
Apple Macintosh, introduction of, 4, 28
Apple Newton Message Pad, 7
Arcadiou, Stelios, see Stelarc (né Stelios Arcadiou)
Arizona Republic, 233
ARPANet, 5
Artificial intelligence, 8, 44, 55, 232, 305
composition of music by, 79, 86
Asimov, Isaac, 145
AT&T, 11–13
Audio-Animatronic technology, 115, 145, 147
Auto-amputation, technology as, 116–17, 160, 164, 234, 319
Automation, 141, 145–46, 150
Automobiles, 143–45
automation of factories, 141, 145–46
sex and, 189–92
Axcess, 36
Babbage, Charles, 4
“Bacchic Pleasures,” 33
Bacon, Francis, 176–77
Bainbridge, Jeff, 130
Ballard, J. G., 172, 175–76, 191–92, 212–13, 225, 234, 235, 245, 270–71, 273, 278, 296, 310
Balsamo, Anne, 205, 237, 246, 255, 256
Barker, Clive, 86, 88
Barlow, John Perry, 22, 33, 47–48, 56–57, 217
Barry, John A., 122
Barthes, Roland, 168–69
Bataille, Georges, 89–90, 125, 126
Bateson, Gregory, 48
Baudrillard, Jean, 191, 196, 295–96, 310–11
“Baudrillard’s Obscenity,” 310–11
Bayley, Stephen, 189
BBS Callers Digest, 56
BBSs, see Bulletin board systems (BBSs)
Beauty (D’Amato), 239
Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women (Wolf), 238, 241
Beldo, Jaye C., 41
Benjamin, Jessica, 266, 267
Benjamin, Walter, 142, 311–12
Bethke, Bruce, 75
Bey, Hakim, 38
Beyond 2000, 11
Billeter, Fritz, 281
Biology:
posthuman evolution limited by, 163–64, 168, 317–19
technology and, shifting boundary between, 90
“Biomechanical,” 82
Biomechanical tattoos, 280–85
Bionics, 231, 285–89
“Bird and the Robot,” 145, 146
Bird Land, 137
BITNET (Because It’s Time Network), 6
Black, MacKnight, 188
Blade Runner, 192, 238, 252
Body, human, 231–63
as commodity, 232–33
cyborgs, see Cyborgs
data bodies and, 257–58
mind/body dichotomy, 164, 231–32, 234–36, 247–56, 261, 274, 294, 308–10, 315, 316–17, 319
technocolonization of, 250
see also Brain, human; Posthumanism (Posthuman evolution)
Body anxiety, 233, 281
Body Art, 277
Body art, 157–59
cybernetic, 153–56, 159–60, 166, 167, 170–74, 176, 177–79
feminist, 158–59
ritualistic associations of, 169
Bodybuilding, 246, 260–63, 269
Body horror, 233–34
Body loathing, 87, 235–36, 238, 248–52, 271, 316
Body politics, 231, 233, 236–42
Body transgressions, 246, 259, 277
tattoos, see Tattoos
Bohnaker, William, 273–74
bOING-bOING, 185
Boot Camp-Indoctrination into an Ordered System, 177
Borging or cyborging, 155, 271, 298
see also Cyborgs; Morphs and morphing
Bozzelli, Phil, 236
Brain, human, 232, 317–19
-as-computer metaphor, 232, 317–18
“downloading,” 299–302, 308, 309, 316, 317, 318, 319
mind-body dichotomy, see Body, human, mind-body dichotomy
wired to computers, 287–92
Brain Response Interface (BRI), 287
Branca, Glenn, 83, 91
Brand, Stewart, 22, 27, 56
Branwyn, Gareth, 199, 201, 202–03, 208, 287, 290–91
Brautigan, Richard, 30
Brave New World (Huxley), 217
Breakdown of Society, 132
Brent, Burt, 286–87
Bricolage, 112
Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, The, 189, 211
Bridging Science and Spirit: Common Elements in David Bohm’s Physics, the Perennial Philosophy, and Seth (Friedman), 57
Bright, Susie, 222–23
Brood, The, 235
Brooks, Rodney, 123
Brown, Norman O., 38, 277
Brown, Tiffany Lee, 198, 199
Browning, Frank, 204–05
Bukatman, Scott, 144–45, 242, 247, 271, 280, 294
Bukowski, Charles, 194–95
Bulletin board systems (BBSs), 5, 61, 68–69, 70, 206
text sex, see Text sex
see also names of individual bulletin boards
Burden, Chris, 157, 158, 159
“Burning Chrome,” 83
Burroughs, William S., 52, 126, 127, 253, 298, 313
Bush, George, 22
Butler, Samuel, 65, 90
Cadaver, Cliff, 284–85
Cadigan, Pat, 86, 100–01, 105, 213, 252–56
Caldicott, Dr. Helen, 127
Calkins, Ernest Elmo, 142
Calvin, William H., 317–18
Campbell, Joseph, 65, 68, 72, 254–55
Capek, Karel, 114, 141
Capra, Fritjof, 57
Carnegie-Mellon University, 207
Carr, Patrick, 269
Cartesian worldview, 141, 164, 188, 231–32, 316
Casti, John L., 63
Castle, David, 257
Caulfield Institute of Technology, 153
CD-ROMs, adult-oriented, 208–10, 218
Chamberlain, Alan L., 204
Chambers, Larry, 193
Channell, David F., 229–30
Chaos theory, 9, 43, 44, 297
Chapman, Gary, 14, 64
Chase, R. A., 291
Childhood’s End (Clarke), 45
Child pornography, on-line, 206–07
Child Safety on the Information Highway, 207
Christian fundamentalists, 63
Christian worldview, 236, 316
Christine (King), 190
Cine-Med, 7
Cirlot, J. E., 154
City Suspension, 157
Clancy, Tom, 125, 223–24
Clarke, Arthur C., 29–30, 35, 45, 50
Clearlight, Captain, 37
Clinton, Bill, 22
Clynes, Manfred, 229
Cohen, Allan, 37
Cohen, John, 193
Cohen, Leonard, 237
Collective consciousness, 44–49
Co
mfort/Control, 170–73, 174, 177–79
Comfort/Voyeur, 176
Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s, 38–39
CompuServe, 5, 208
“Compu-Sex: Erotica for Cybernauts,” 201
Compute, 124
Computer Lib (Nelson), 27
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, 14, 64
Computers:
brain as computer metaphor, 232, 317–18
the brain wired to, 287–92
illnesses associated with working at, 146
magical-religious metaphors for, 64–67, 70–71
personal computers, introduction of, 4, 27
Computer slang, 220–21
“Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk,” 76
Consumer economy, 142, 147
Control, being in, 252
body modification as form of, 275–76, 277
machines and, see Machines, control of, and control by
social control , 87, 141
Cosmetic surgery, 230, 233, 238–42, 247, 250, 286
see also Plastic surgery, reconstructive
Count Zero (Gibson), 55–56
Coward, Rosalind, 276
Craig, Bill, 113
Crash (Ballard), 175–76, 191–92, 212–13, 296, 310, 311
Creative Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind, The (Harth), 318
Critical Art Ensemble, 258, 259
Cronenberg, David, 16, 235–36, 277, 305
Videodrome, 248, 294–95, 296
Crowley, Aleister, 52, 53
Cruel and Relentless Plot to Pervert the Flesh of Beasts to Unholy Uses, A, 118
Crystal Express (Sterling), 296
cummings, e. e., 190
Cure for Cancer, A (Moorcock), 95
CyberArts International, 171
Cyberdelia, 21–72
Cyber-hippies, 22–28, 30, 32, 33
Cyberia, 23, 31–32
Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace (Rushkoff), 23, 41–42, 45, 48, 49
Cybernetic body art, 153–56, 159–60, 166, 170–74, 176, 177–79
Cyberpunk (album), 76
Cyberpunk(s), 24–25, 154–55, 156, 262–63, 281, 285
comic books, 209
mechanical spectacle as cyberpunk art form, 128, 130
music, 75–107
characteristics of, 80–81
origins of term, 75–76
science fiction, 24, 31, 75, 76, 80, 82–86, 90–97, 100–07
passim, 155, 248, 285–86, 287–88
Cyberpunk (video documentary), 285
“Cyberpunk 101,” 91
Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (Hafner and Markoff), 75
Cyberpunx, 53–54
Cybersex, 211–17, 222–23
with celebrities, 213–14
defined, 199
Cyberspace, 72
defined, 6
