by Mark Dery
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 302
Nightwatch, 209
Nine Inch Nails, 84, 87–90
1984 (Orwell), 170, 173
1990s computer culture and counterculture of, 21–33, 45, 51, 71–72
1960s, 98, 99, 101, 277
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 290
Nixpix, 206
Nomad, 172
North, Timothy, 170, 172, 173, 178
Nova, 124–25
Nova (Delany), 155
Numan, Gary, 81
Objectification, 311, 315
Omni, 145, 219, 288, 290
O’Neill, Gerard, 36
O’Neill, William, 38–39
One Man and His World, 209
On the Media, 122
Oren, Tim, 205
Orgasmatron, 199, 213
Orlan, 239–41
O’Rourke, P. J., 42
Orpheus, Rodney, 53–54, 67
Outlaw Biker Tattoo Review, 284
Pacheco, Marcus, 282, 283
Paglia, Camille, 25
Paik, Nam June, 112
Palac, Lisa, 185, 186
Panopticism, 141
Paradise Garden, 137
Patten, Terry, 58
Pauline, Mark, 111, 115–22, 126–31, 143–44, 147, 148, 150, 225, 283, 285
PBS, 146, 156
Pengo, 93
Penley, Constance, 62
Peoples’ Computer Company, 26
Persian Gulf War, 120, 121–25, 158, 223, 224
Philadelphia Inquirer, 224
Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God, and the Resurrection of the Dead, The (Tipler), 9
Picabia, Francis, 188, 189
Pirsig, Robert, 72
Pittman, Robert, 97–98
Pixar, 134
Plastic surgery, reconstructive, 285, 286–87
see also Cosmetic surgery
Platt, Charles, 317
Playboy, 28, 29–30, 46, 129, 206, 222, 230
Poaching, 62
Politics, 251
advertising and, 176
body politics, 231, 233, 236–42
radicalism of the sixties, 32, 98
religion and, 169
technology used as power mechanism, 169
see also Socioeconomic and political problems, indifference to
Pollack, Andrew, 290
Pollitt, Katha, 244
Pomeroy, Jim, 127
Pornography, 206–08, 217–18
P-Orridge, Genesis, 52, 55, 61–62, 81
Portrait of an American Girl in a State of Nudity, 188
Post Human, 293
Posthumanism (posthuman evolution), 9, 45, 46, 154–55, 159–66, 168, 263, 292–319
cosmetic surgery and, 241, 242
perils of, 292–306
reconstructive surgery and, 286–87
Posthuman sex, 187, 212–17
Postman, Neil, 70
Poststructuralism, 244, 245, 246
Power of Myth, The (Campbell), 65
“Precession of Simulacra, The,” 295–96
Pretty Hate Machine, 87
Prigogine, Ilya, 297
Privacy, issue of, 174–75, 257
Privacy for Sale: How Computerization Has Made Everyone’s Private Life an Open Secret (Rothfeder), 257
“Probability Pipeline,” 31–32
Procter, Lynn, 277
Prodigy, 5, 207
Proportional Study of a Man in the Manner of Vitruvius, 178
Prosthetics, 231, 233, 288, 289
“Prosthetics, Robotics and the Remote Existence: Postevolutionary Strategies,” 164
Psychedelic drugs, 25–30, 37, 43, 48, 49
Psychic TV, 52
Punk music, 81, 91, 105–07
Push Piece, 158
Queen Mu, see Mu, Queen (aka Alison Kennedy)
QuickTime software, 209
Quine, Robert, 91
Rabinbach, Anson, 266, 267
Radzik, Jody, 47
Ranaldo, Lee, 80
Rand, Ayn, 302, 304, 307
Ratcliffe, Mitch, 13
Raves and ravers, 22, 52–53
Rayns, Tony, 270
Reality:
rechoosing, 42–43, 49
virtual reality, see Virtual reality
Reality Hackers, 36
Reed, Lou, 81, 92
Reich, Robert, 3, 69
Reiss, Jonathan, 88
Religion, 179–80
politics and, 169
technology and, 169, 173, 179
see also Rituals, cultural
Re/Search, 117, 223
Modern Primitives issue of, 275, 276, 277, 278–79
Restak, Dr. Richard, 163–64, 318–19
Reznor, Trent, 84, 87–90
Rheingold, Howard, 22, 24, 120, 205, 211, 212, 213, 215, 225
Riefenstahl, Leni, 103
Ritual Mechanics, 171–73
Rituals, cultural, 159, 168, 169
of cyberculture, 166
resistance through, 275
Road Warrior, The, 282
Robb, Paul, 80
Robbins, Anthony, 232, 302
Robbins, Rossell Hope, 174
Roberts, Elizabeth J., 225
Roberts, Jane, 57
Robertson, Pat, 85
RoboCop 2, 261
RoboCopulation, 192–93, 198–99
see also Sex machines and machine sex
Robopsychology, 219
Robosaurus, 143
Robot Group, 113
Robots and robotics, 8, 111, 112–15, 118–20, 131–50, 155, 163, 218, 300–01
battles fought by, 123, 124
entertainment, 115, 142, 144–49
history of, 114–15, 140–41
at monster truck rallies, 143–44
“organic,” 118
RoboCopulation, 192–93, 198–99
teleoperation of, 120–21, 124, 134
in the workplace, 145–46, 150
see also Sex machines and machine sex
Robot Wars, 114
“Rockit,” 113
Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, 97–98
“Rock On,” 100–01
Roger and Me, 143
“‘Roid rage,” 261
Rolling Stone, 27, 47
Romulus Entertainment, 209
Rose, Barbara, 240
Rose, Tricia, 270
Rosen, Dr. Joseph M., 116, 285–86, 287, 291–92
Rosenthal, Rachel, 167
Ross, Andrew, 62–63, 111–12, 115, 146, 250, 251–52, 262–63, 306, 313, 315
Ross, David, 301–02, 318, 319
Rossetto, Louis, 46–47
Roszak, Theodore, 25, 27
Rothfeder, Jeffrey, 257
Rothstein, Edward, 54
Rotten, Johnny, 186
Roxy Madam, 129
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), 153, 156
Rucker, Rudy, 31, 63, 93, 187
Rudhyar, Dane, 83
Ruppersberg, Hugh, 48
R.U.R., 114
Rushkoff, Douglas, 23, 31–32, 41–45, 48, 49
Saenz, Mike, 209–10, 214, 218, 219
Sainsott, Craig and Charlene, 113
“St. Jude” (Jude Milhon), 198–99
Sandia National Laboratories, 124
“Sandman, The,” 196
“Sane Revolution, A,” 34
San Francisco Chronicle, 124
San Francisco Examiner, 239
Santos, David, 113
Savage, Jon, 81
Sayre, Rick, 134–35, 148
Schickel, Richard, 148
Schismatrix (Sterling), 6, 95, 155, 296, 297
Schneemann, Carolee, 158–59, 165, 223
Schodt, Frederik, 196
Schwartz, Barry, 170–71, 283
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 7, 262, 263, 264, 266, 268
Science and Invention, 124
Science fiction, 88, 166, 168
cyberpunk, s
ee Cyberpunk, science fiction
cyborgs and borging in, 155, 231
rock music and, 81
see also names of individual science fiction authors and works
Science Fiction Eye, 94
Scorsese, Martin, 294
Scott, Giles Gilbert, 179
Scribe, 114–15, 147
Scrying, 62
Seaside Suspension: Event for Wind and Waves, 157
“Second Thoughts on the 1960s,” 42
Seizing the Future: How the Coming Revolution in Science, Technology, and Industry Will Expand the Frontiers of Human Potential and Shape the Planet (Zey), 314
Self, 185
Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins), 308
Self-transformation, 302, 303, 305, 312
Seth Material, The (Roberts), 57
Sewell, Brian, 177
Sex, 183–225, 233, 236
advertising and, 184, 188, 279
automobiles and, 189–92
CD-ROMs, adult-oriented, 208–10, 218
computer slang and, 220–21
cybersex, see Cybersex
death, and technology, 223–24
death and, 126
interactive X-rated computer programs, 199
machines, and machine sex, 183–99, 219, 221, 225
male desire displaced onto machinery, 219–23
mechano-eroticism, 87, 183–84, 187–92, 198, 221, 222, 271
on-line, see Text sex
posthuman, 187, 212–17
religious sacrifice and, 89–90
technoporn written from female perspective, 198–99
teleoperated computer, 201
text, see Text sex
Sex machines and machine sex, 87, 183–99, 219, 221, 225
Sharp, Elliott, 84–86
Shatter, 209
Shaw, Jonathan, 278, 281, 283, 284
“she being Brand,” 190
Sheeler, Charles, 10
Shepard, Lucius, 86
Shiner, Louis, 75–76, 93, 97
Shirley, John, 91, 93–97, 101, 102–03, 105, 128, 154–55
Shivers (aka They Came from Within), 277
Shoot, 157
Short, Robert, 188
Shrader, Charles R., 236
Silicon Man, The (Platt), 317
Silicon Valley Guy Handbook, 221
Sim, Hannah, 135
Simons, Geoff, 220
Sinatra, Pat, 281–82, 283
Sinistrari, Ludovico Maria, 174
Sirius, R. U. (aka Ken Goffman), 22, 31, 34–38, 39–41, 47, 305–06, 314–15
Sitting/Swaying Event for Rock Suspension, 157
Sitwell, Edith, 280
Six Million Dollar Man, The, 282–83
Sixties, see 1960s
Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, The (Gitlin), 29
Sixties People (Stern and Stern), 25
’60s Reader, The, 26
Skal, David, 247–48, 308–09
Slusser, George, 103
Smart drugs, 24, 33, 57, 293, 302
Smart weapons, 121–25
Smith, Jack, 271
Smithsonian World, 256
Snow, C. P., 23
Snyder, David P., 288
Snyder, Gary, 25
Sobchack, Vivian, 35, 37, 310–11, 312, 315
Social constructionism, 63
Socioeconomic and political problems, indifference to, 10–11, 17, 41, 49, 70, 304, 305, 306–07
Solotaroff, Paul, 261
Sorayama, Hajime, 193
Soul of a New Machine, The (Kidder), 66, 219–20
South Atlantic Quarterly, 201
Space Coast Software, 209
Space migration, 298, 313
Spare, Austin Osman, 52
Spin, 51
Spinrad, Norman, 36, 55, 86, 104–05, 106–07, 255, 302–03, 306
“Spider Rose,” 234
Springer, Claudia, 126, 166, 243, 269–70
Stapleton-Gray, Ross, 13
Star Trek, 216, 260, 309
“Steel Madam,” 193
Steger, Mark, 135
Stelarc (né Stelios Arcadiou), 153–57, 159–69, 170, 296, 303, 313
“Stelarc, Performance and Masochism,” 167
Stepford Wives, The, 194
Sterling, Bruce, 6, 13, 22–23, 24–25, 64, 86, 92–95, 99–100, 105, 128, 153, 162, 209, 234, 292, 296–97
Stern, Jane, 25
Stern, Michael, 25
Stevens, Matt, 210
Stone, Allucquere Rosanne, 310
Street Suspension, 157
Sunderwirth, Stanley, 221–22
Surgical simulation, 285
Surveillance, 146, 147, 174–75, 253
Survival Research Laboratories, 111, 116, 118–22, 126–31, 137, 143, 155
Sussman, Gerald Jay, 293–94
Sutter, Eric, 289, 290
Synners (Cadigan), 213, 252–56, 319
Tactical Neural Implant, 81–82
Taguchi, Tomoroh, 272
Talk of the Nation, 207
Tao of Physics, The (Capra), 57
Tatsumi, Takayuki, 95
Tattoo Flash, 274
Tattoos, 246, 274–85
biomechanical, 280–85
Taylor, Bruce, 207
Taylorism, 141, 146
“Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information,” 56
Techno-evolution, see Posthumanism (posthuman evolution)
Techno-literacy, 147, 149
“Technological Self-Transformation: Expanding Personal Extropy,” 304
“Technology and the Irrational,” 148
“Techno-onanism,” 202
Technopaganism and technopagans, 22, 41, 49, 50–72
defined, 50
Techno-surrealism, 271
Techno-transcendentalism, 9, 45, 48–49, 161
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 9, 45–46, 47–48, 57, 59
Telecommuting, 245
Teledildonics, 215, 217
Teleoperation, 120–21, 124, 134, 163, 201
Television, 175, 176, 224–25, 234, 278, 279, 294
Terminator, The, 125, 262, 263–64
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 216, 229, 231, 263–70
Tesla, Nikola, 124
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, 270–74
Text sex, 199–206, 207–08, 217, 219
Therrien, D. A., 169–80
Theweleit, Klaus, 266, 267
Third Wave, The (Toffler), 36
Thompson, Hunter, 265
“Thoracobrachial Pterygoplasty Powered by Muscle Transposition Flaps,” 286–87
Thorpe, Marc, 114
Throbbing Gristle, 81, 91, 283
Ticket That Exploded, The (Burroughs), 126
Tierney, John, 217–18
Time, 4, 5, 24, 207, 211
TinySex, 205
Tipler, Frank J., 9
Toffler, Alvin, 36, 231
Tolonen, Pekka, 214
Tomorrow Makers: A Brave New World of Living-Brain Machines, The (Fjermedal), 293–94
Tools for Exploration, 57–58, 59
TOPY (Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth), 51–52, 55, 56, 61
Transhumanism, 302–05
Transmaniacon (Shirley), 95–96
Trayle, Mark, 78
Trees Are Walking, The, 134, 136
Tri-City Labor Review, 141, 146
Trigram, 135
Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl), 103
True Names (Vinge), 298
Tsukamoto, Shinya, 270–74
Tucker, Ken, 97–98
2001: A Space Odyssey, 45, 192, 252, 297
Ultimate Masterpiece: The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan, The, 239
Useless Machine Activity, 148
UseNet, 5, 51, 207
Vale, V, 275
Van Der Leun, Gerard, 201, 218
Vaporware, 7
Vaucanson, Jacques de, 114, 141
Vaughan, Henry, 11
VCR, pornography and, 217–18
Velvet Undergr
ound & Nico, 91, 92
Victory through Air Power, 123
Videodrome, 248, 294–95, 296
“Video Killed the Radio Star,” 99
“Video Star,” 279–80
Village Voice, 54, 261
Villiers de l’Isle-Adams, Jean, 196–97
Vinge, Vernor, 8–9, 298, 309, 312, 315
Violence, 224–25
see also Weapons
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, The (Rheingold), 205
Virtual instruments, 77–79
Virtual Light (Gibson), 280–81
“Virtual Nintendo,” 33
Virtual reality, 8–9, 23, 43, 49, 83, 121, 292, 299
sex in, see Cybersex
Virtual Valerie, 209, 210, 217
“Vitruvian Man,” 178
VR. 5, 7
Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square, 158
Ward, Darrell E., 290
Warhol, Andy, 34
Washington Post, 35, 75
Weapons, 236
mechanical spectacle as critique of hightech, 119–22, 126–27
sex, technology, and death, 223–24
smart weapons, 121–25
Weber, Max, 278
Weizenbaum, Joseph, 214
WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link), 5, 13, 35, 41, 52, 70, 185, 198, 202, 203–04, 205, 206, 210, 213, 216, 225
Werner, Eric, 118
Westmoreland, General William C., 124
Westworld, 125, 193, 198
“What Are Muds and Muses?,” 205
“Where All the Flowers Went,” 98
White Album (Didion), 15
Whiteway, Erika, 198, 199
Whiting, Jim, 113
Whittaker, Lloyd, 171
Whole Earth Catalogue, 22, 27
Whole Earth Review, 313
Wiener, Norbert, 309
Williams, Bob, 145–46
Williams, Walter Jon, 279–80
Willis, Ellen, 39
“Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories about Virtual Cultures,” 310
Wilson, Edward O., 313–14
Wilson, Peter Lamborn, 93
“Winter Market, The,” 84
Winthrop, John, 10
Wired, 36, 185, 201, 205, 287
“Wireheads,” 287
Wolf, Naomi, 237, 241–42, 247, 259
Wolfe, Tom, 28–29, 45
Wolpaw, Dr. Jonathan R., 290
“Woman’s Home Companion,” 198–99
Wonderwoman and Superman: The Ethics of Biotechnology (Harris), 230
Workplace:
automation of, 141, 145–46, 150
inability to escape work life, 12
robots in, 145–46, 150
surveillance, 146
see also Labor
World Wide Web, 6
Yablonsky, Lewis, 129
Young, Liz, 171
Young, Toby, 23
YRTSI, 214
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig), 72
Zerzan, John, 16
Zey, Michael G., 314–15, 316
“Zippie” (“Zen-inspired pagan professional”), 23
Zukav, Gary, 57
