Chaos & Cyber Culture
Author: Timothy Leary
Publisher: Grupo Editorial Norma
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780914171775
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Chaos and Cyber Culture
Author: Timothy Leary
Publisher: Ronin Publishing (CA)
Published: 2014-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781579511470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica's most dangerous man -- according to Richard Nixon -- and the Pied Piper of Youth is BACK! This book is about designing Chaos and fashioning your personal disorder: On screens with cyber tools from counterculture perspectives with informational chemicals (Chaos drugs) while delighting in cybernetics as guerrilla artists who explore de-animation alternatives while surfing the waves of millennium madness to glimpse the glorious wild impossibilities and improbabilities of the century to come. Enjoy it! It's ours to be played with! Chaos & CyberCulture conveys Timothy Leary's vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and the empowerment of computers and other technologies. Leary's last great work, this book includes over 100,000 words in 40 chapters and 80 illustrations, as well as conversations with William Gibson, Winona Ryder, William S. Burroughs, and David Byrne. Timothy Leary, the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru of the '60s counterculture, has reemerged as an icon of the new edge cyberpunks.
Chaos & cyberculture
Author: Timothy Leary
Publisher: Lezard
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9782910718077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLe sujet de cet ouvrage est une nouvelle conception du chaos et la mise en forme de nos désordres personnels.. Sur nos écrans. Grâce aux outils cybernétiques. Et à l'évocation des contre-cultures. Grâce aux substances de la connaissance (les drogues du chaos). Aux délices du cybersexe. En tant qu'artistes guérilleros. Qui explorent des possibilités nouvelles. En surfant sur les vagues de la folie millénariste. Les yeux fixés sur les merveilles à venir ou à ne pas venir. Au cours du siècle prochain. Tout ça pour vous, amis lecteurs ! Amusez-vous bien ! Chaos et Cyberculture reflète la conviction de Timothy Leary selon laquelle le vingt-et-unième siècle verra l'émergence d'un nouvel humanisme, dont les idées forces seront la contestation de l'autorité, la liberté de pensée, la créativité personnelle, le tout soutenu et encouragé par la vulgarisation de l'ordinateur et des nouvelles technologies de la communication. Cet ouvrage, qui représente la plus importante contribution de l'auteur depuis les années 60, comporte quarante chapitres et plus de quatre-vingts illustrations. On y trouve d'intéressants entretiens avec des personnalités de la littérature, de la musique et du cinéma, qui sont aussi des amis de Leary : William Gibson, W>illiam S. Burroughs, David Byrne et Winona Ryder. On connaissait Timothy Leary comme le gourou visionnaire des années 60, on le retrouve ici comme le chef de file des cyberpunks de la nouvelle génération.
Cyberculture
Author: Pierre Lévy
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780816636105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeeding guidance and seeking insight, the Council of Europe approached Pierre Lévy, one of the world's most important and well-respected theorists of digital culture, for a report on the state (and, frankly, the nature) of cyberspace. The result is this extraordinary document, a perfectly lucid and accessible description of cyberspace-from infrastructure to practical applications-along with an inspired, far-reaching exploration of its ramifications. A window on the digital world for the technologically timid, the book also offers a brilliant vision of the philosophical and social realities and possibilities of cyberspace for the adept and novice alike. In an overview, Lévy discusses the distinguishing features of cyberspace and cyberculture from anthropological, philosophical, cultural, and sociological points of view. An optimist about the future potential of cyberspace, he eloquently argues that technology-and specifically the infrastructure of cyberspace, the Internet-can have a transformative effect on global society. Some of the issues he takes up are new art forms; changes in relationships to knowledge, education, and training; the preservation of linguistic and cultural differences; the emergence and implications of collective intelligence; the problems of social exclusion; and the impact of new technology on the city and democracy in general. In considerable detail, Lévy describes the ways in which cyberspace will help promote the growth of democracy, primarily through the participation of individuals or groups. His analysis is enlivened by his own personal impressions of cyberculture-garnered from bulletin boards, mailing lists, virtual reality demonstrations, andsimulations. Immediate in its details, visionary in its scope, deeply informed yet free of unnecessary technical language, Cyberculture is the book we require in our digital age. --Publisher.
Present and Future Paradigms of Cyberculture in the 21st Century
Author: Atay, Simber
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2020-11-27
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1522580255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCyberculture is a particularly complex issue. It is seen as a fantastic meeting point of classic philosophers with postmodern theorists, politicians with community engineers, contemporary sophists with software engineers, and artists with rhetoricians. Today, cyberculture is identified highly with new media and digital rhetoric and could be used to create a comprehensive map of modern culture. Present and Future Paradigms of Cyberculture in the 21st Century is a comprehensive research publication that explores the influence of the internet and internet culture on society as a whole. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as digital media, activism, and psychology, this book is ideal for academicians, researchers, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and students.
Cyberpunk & Cyberculture
Author: Dani Cavallaro
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2000-04-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1847140351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shierley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema - from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix - and contemporary work on the culture of technology.
Flame Wars
Author: Mark Dery
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780822315407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on electronic communication, cyberpunk culture, and rants and flames in cyberspace consider subjects such as the magazine Mondo 2000, the typewriter, virtual reality, feminism, comics, and erotica for cybernauts. Includes blurry b&w photos and illustrations, and an interviews with science fictions writers Samuel R. Delaney, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Religions of Modernity
Author: Stef Aupers
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-07-07
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9004193693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligions of Modernity' challenges the social-scientific orthodoxy that, once unleashed, the modern forces of individualism, science and technology inevitably erode the sacred and evoke the profane. The book’s chapters, some by established scholars, others by junior researchers, document instead in rich empirical detail how modernity relocates the sacred to the deeper layers of the self and the domain of digital technology. Rather than destroying the sacred tout court, then, the cultural logic of modernization spawns its own religious meanings, unacknowledged spiritualities and magical enchantments. The classical theoretical accounts of modernity by Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and others, it is argued in the introductory chapter, already hinted that there's a future for such religions of modernity. Contributors: Stef Aupers, Kelly Besecke, Kirsten Marie Bovbjerg, Siobhan Chandler, Olav Hammer, Dick Houtman, Murray Lee, Carly Machado, Karen Pärna, Adam Possamai, Linda Woodhead, and Dorien Zandbergen.
Altered State
Author: Matthew Collin
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2010-12-09
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1847656412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as MDMA became a mass-market narcotic. Altered State is the best-selling book on Ecstasy culture, using a cast of memorable characters to track the origins of the scene and its drug through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos and the Balearic paradise of Ibiza, to the point where Tony Blair was using an Ecstasy anthem as an election campaign song. Altered State critically examines the ideologies and myths of the scene, documenting the criminal underside to the blissed-out image, shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the twentieth century.
Transhumanism
Author: David Livingstone
Publisher: David Livingstone
Published: 2015-09-02
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1515232573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranshumanism is a recent movement that extols man’s right to shape his own evolution, by maximizing the use of scientific technologies, to enhance human physical and intellectual potential. While the name is new, the idea has long been a popular theme of science fiction, featured in such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, the Terminator series, and more recently, The Matrix, Limitless, Her and Transcendence. However, as its adherents hint at in their own publications, transhumanism is an occult project, rooted in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, and derived from the Kabbalah, which asserts that humanity is evolving intellectually, towards a point in time when man will become God. Modeled on the medieval legend of the Golem and Frankenstein, they believe man will be able to create life itself, in the form of living machines, or artificial intelligence. Spearheaded by the Cybernetics Group, the project resulted in both the development of the modern computer and MK-Ultra, the CIA’s “mind-control” program. MK-Ultra promoted the “mind-expanding” potential of psychedelic drugs, to shape the counterculture of the 1960s, based on the notion that the shamans of ancient times used psychoactive substances, equated with the “apple” of the Tree of Knowledge. And, as revealed in the movie Lucy, through the use of “smart drugs,” and what transhumanists call “mind uploading,” man will be able to merge with the Internet, which is envisioned as the end-point of Kabbalistic evolution, the formation of a collective consciousness, or Global Brain. That awaited moment is what Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google, refers to as The Singularly. By accumulating the total of human knowledge, and providing access to every aspect of human activity, the Internet will supposedly achieve omniscience, becoming the “God” of occultism, or the Masonic All-Seeing Eye of the reverse side of the American dollar bill.
