Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802135209)

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of the high-tech subcultures that both celebrate and critique our wired world: would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brainpower with smart drugs and mind machines, on-line swingers seeking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.


Author: Mark Dery
ISBN-10: 080213520X
ISBN-13: 9780802135209
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 08/05/1997
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.05h x 5.98w x 1.05d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/05/1997 pg. 36
Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 44