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Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
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Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century Paperback - 1997

by Mark Dery

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Taking readers on an unforgettable journey into the dark heart of the Information Age, cultural critic Mark Dery introduces them to a wide array of characters on the fringe of computer culture--underground robotocists, cybersex enthusiasts, virtual-reality designers and would-be cyborgs.

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An Unforgettable Journey into the Dark Heart of the Information Age

In Escape Velocity Mark Dery takes is on an electrifying tour of the high-tech subcultures that both celebrate and critique our wired world: would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brainpower with smart drugs and mind machines, on-line swingers seeking cybersex on electronic bulletin boards, techno-primitives who sport "biomechanical" tattoos of computer circuitry; and cyberpunk roboticists whose Mad Max contraptions duel to the death before howling crowds.

Timely, trenchant, and provocative, Escape Velocity is the first truly critical inquiry into cyberculture-essential reading for everyone interested in computer culture and the shape of things to come.

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"The '90s are just the '60s upside down," says the comedian Philip Proctor.

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  • Title Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
  • Author Mark Dery
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Pbk. Ed
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1997-08-05
  • ISBN 9780802135209 / 080213520X
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.05 x 5.98 x 1.05 in (22.99 x 15.19 x 2.67 cm)
  • Themes
    • Holiday: Father's Day
  • Category Computers - General Information
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95-40922
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483

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  • Library Journal, 04/01/2015, Page 44
  • New York Times, 10/05/1997, Page 36

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