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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) Becjut/(D'Amato), 239

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Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used

against Women (Wolf), 238, 241 BeldcJayeC, 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, 2 50

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 BozzeUi, 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

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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, Chff, 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 E, 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

Comfort/Control, 170-73, 174, 177-79

ComJortAbyeur, 176

Coming Apart: An Iriformal 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 Counf Zero (Gibson), 55-56 Coward, Rosalind, 276 Craig, Bill, 113

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Crash (Ballard), 175-76, 191-92, 212-13,

296,310,311 Creative Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind,

r/7e(Harth), 318 Critical Art Ensemble, 258, 259 Cronenberg, David, 16, 235-36, 277, 305

Videodrome, 248, 294-95, 296 Crowley, A leister, 52, 53 Cruel and Relentless Plot to Pervert the Flesh of

Beasts to Unholy Uses, A, U8 Crystal Express (Sterling), 296 cummings, e. e., 190 Curejor 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 oJHyperspace (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 "Cyber-Superstition," 64 Cyborgasm, 186-87

"Cyborg Manifesto, A," Haraway's, 242-46 Cyborgs, 107, 154, 162-63, 183, 190, 231, 241,263-74,282-83,287

coining of the term, 229

described, 230

Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto," 242-46

in science fiction novels, 231, 234

in Terminator 2, 231, 263

see also Borging or cyborging; Morphs and morphing

Dadaists, 188-89, 194

D'Amato, Brian, 239

Dancing Wu-Li Masters, r/ie(Zukav), 57

Darby, Bruce, 135

Datamation, 220

da Vinci, Leonardo, 178, 286

Davis, Erik, 50, 54, 56, 62, 79

Dawkins, Richard, 308

Daydream Nation, 80

DeCurtis, Anthony, 101-02

Dee, John, 62

Deitch, Jeffrey, 292-93

de la Mettrie, Julien Offray, 141

De Landa, Manuel, 44, 55, 117

Delany, Samuel R., 155

de Leon, Mario, 190-91

Delgado, Jose, 170

Deliberately False Statements: A Combination of Tricks and Illusions Guaranteed to Expose the Shrewd Manipulation of Fact, 118-19

Delysid, Maxwell, X., 56, 61, 70, 72

Denise, Toni, 246-47, 258-59

Dery, Mark, 6-7, 306-08

Descartes, Rene, see Cartesian worldview

"Desire to Be Wired, The," 287

Deutsche, Eddie, 282

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Dibbell, Julian, 51, 55, 66-67, 68, 69, 70,

206, 278 Dick, Philip K., 80, 86, 304 Didion, Joan, 15 Diggers, 35, 40 Disappearing through the Skylight: Cuhure and

Technology in the Twentieth Century

(Hardison), 317 Disney, 123 theme parks, 7, 115, 144-45, 146-47,

148-49 DNX Corporation, 230 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick),

304 Dobelle, William H., 288 Donchin, Emanuel, 290 DON JUAN, 219 Donna Matrix, 210 Douglas, Mary, 276 "Downloading," 299-302, 308, 309, 316,

317,318,319 Downward Spiral, The, 87-88 Dozois, Gardner, 75 Dr./lJc/er(Jeter), 86, 116 Dr Strangelove, 224 Dream Machine, The, 146 Drewry, Raymond, 120 Drexler, K. Eric, 8, 44, 71, 293 Drugs, 43, 52 psychedelic, see Psychedelic drugs smart drugs, see Smart drugs Duchamp, Marcel, 189 Dunlop, John T., 69

"Dynamo and the Virgin, The," 187-88 Dyson, Freeman, 309

Eagleton, Terry, 195

East Bay Monthly, 39

Echomail, 51

£c/ipse (Shirley), 101, 102, 103, 107

Eco, Umberto, 146-47

Ehrenreich, Barbara, 233, 260

"Eighties, The," 101-02

Einstein, Albert, 63

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The (Wolfe),

28-29, 45 Electronic Frontier Foundation, 47 Eliade, Mircea, 168 Eliot, T S., 249 ELIZA, 214 Elle, 185

Elmer-Dewitt, Philip, 5, 24, 31, 207 Embedded microprocessors, 7, 64,

148 Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of

Nanotechnology (Drexler), 71 ENIAC, 4, 65 Entertainment Weekly, 268 Environment, 165, 306, 313-14, 315 Erewhon (Butler), 90 Ernst, Max, 188-89 Erotism: Death and Sensuality (Bataille),

89-90, 125 Escape velocity, 8, 159, 316 approach of cyberculture to, 8 defined, 3 Eugenics, 175 Euthanasia, 175 Evans, Christopher, 65 Evening Standard, 177 Event Horizons, 204 Evolution, posthuman, see Posthumanism

(posthuman evolution) Ewen, Stuart, 69, 142, 238, 247, 262 Exploratorium, 133, 134 Extropians, 301-06, 312, 313, 315 Extropy 301, 302, 303, 304, 306 Eye Body 158

Faces of Death, 224

Facing Tomorrow: What the Future Has Been,

What the Future Can Be (Hine), 10 Feedback Machine, 83 Felsenstein, Lee, 26

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Feminists, 165, 255-56

attitude toward science and technology, 244-46, 269

body art of, 158-59

body politics, 231,233, 236-42

corporeal, 237-42

criticism of mechanical spectacle by, 127, 128

"A Cyborg Manifesto," 242-46 Fernbach, Susan E., 202 Ferrari, Enzo, 189 Fineman, Howard, 22 Finster, Howard, 137 Fisher, Scott, 285, 292 Fjermedal, Grant, 293, 316-17 Flamenca, 189 Flame Wars (Dery), 6-7 Flaming Creatures, 2 7 1 Flanagan, Bob, 88-89, 90 Fleming, Dave, 133 Flynn, Anita, 285 Footlight Parade, 184 "Fornication of Automobiles," 190-91 Foster, Paul, 26

Foucault, Michel, 141, 165, 259 Fox, Terry, 158 Fractal geometry, 23, 42, 86 "Frantic Life and Symbolic Death among the

Computer Bums," 27 Eraser, Laura, 41 "Freezone," 102-03 Freud, Sigmund, 38, 42, 89, 187, 196, 265,

277,278,292,294 Friedkin, John, 257 Friedman, Norman, 57 Friedrich, Otto, 4 Front Line Assembly 81-82, 280 Frye, Northrop, 235 "Fuck Machine, The," 194-95 Fulber, Rhys, 82 Fuller, Buckminster, 3 Fuller, Margaret, 263

Fussell, Sam, 262

Future of the Body: Explorations into the

Further Evolution of Human Nature, The

(Murphy), 293 Future Sex, 185-86, 187, 215, 225

Gaia hypothesis, 43

Garb, Yaakov, 313

Gardner, James, 239

Gatewood, Charles, 275

Gender Crash, 259

Gender reassignment, 233, 246-47

General Motors, 143, 144-45, 146

Genetic engineering, 175, 230, 233, 298,

302 GEnie, 5

Gernsback, Hugo, 124 Gibson, William, 6, 55-56, 82-86, 91, 93,

94,107,128,215,279,280-81,

285-86 Neuromancer, see Neuromancer (Gibson) "The Street Finds Its Own Uses for

Things,"15, 59, 147-48 .GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) files,

206,217 Giger, H. R., 82, 88, 280-83, 284 Gingrich, Newt, 27 Ginsberg, Allen, 2 5 Githn, Todd, 29, 32, 40, 69 Glass Hammer, The (Jeter), 80 Glenn, Jerome Clayton, 44 Goddesses, 158-59, 187-88, 245 GofFman, Ken, see Sirius, R. U. (aka Ken

Goffman) Goldstone, Brett, 111, 133, 136-40, 147, 150 Goodwin, Andrew, 98, 99 Gorman, Shotsie, 282 Grogan, Emmett, 40 Gross, Terry, 107 Grosz, Elizabeth, 237 Gun People (Carr), 269 Gysin, Brion, 313

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

(Levy), 26,66, 198, 219 Hafner, Katie, 75 Hambrecht, F. Terry, 289 Hamilton, Linda, 263, 268 Hancock, Herbie, 113 Handswriting, 160 Hanson, Peter G., 12 Happiness, 88-90 "Happiness in Slavery," 88, 126 Haraway, Donna, 11, 16-17, 147, 223, 237,

252,256,259,269,284,316 "A Cyborg Manifesto," 242-46 Hardesty, Linda, 203 Hardison, O. B., Jr., 317 Hardware, 125, 128 Hardy, Ed, 283 Hardy, Godfrey Harold, 63 Harkins, Arthur, 199 Harris, John, 230 Harth, Erich, 318 Hasselstrom, Linda, 234 Hays, Mark, 143 Heckert, Matt, 118, 119 Hedegaard, Erik, 261 Hellraiser, 86, 88 Henson, Keith, 303 Hestenes, Helen, 173 High Frontier, The (O'Neill), 36 High Frontiers, 36, 37-38, 39, 40

see also Mondo 2000 Hills, Daniel, 293

Hine, Thomas, 10, 231, 260, 292, 313, 316 Hiraiwa, Akira, 290 Hirschorn, Michael, 201-02 Hoberman, J., 271 Hoffmann, E. T A., 196 Horvitz, Robert, 66 House of Dreams, 209 Howe, Joan, 245 "How to Make a Monster: Modifications for

the Millennium," 284

Hudak, Chris, 186-87 Hudson, Michael, 171 Hultkran, Andrew, 34 Human potential movement, 22, 58, 72,

232,305 Human Robots in Myth and Science (Cohen),

193 Hunting, Eric, 216-17 Hutchison, Michael, 58-59, 293 Huxley, Aldous, 27, 38-39, 217 Hynde, Chrissie, 91

I.D., 221

Idol, Billy, 76

/£££ Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,

290 lies, Alex, 113 Index (MachinesJor the New Inquisition),

173-74 Information economy, 3-4 Information Machine: Ideological Engines,

177-79 Infoworld, 221 Inner Technologies, 24 Inside the Robot Kingdom (Schodt), 196 Internet, 5-6, 44, 47, 56, 70, 205, 207 "Isolation Syndrome of Automation, The,"

145

Jackson, Cindy, 230, 242 Japanese female, portrayal of, 273-74 Jaquet-Droz, Henri-Louis, 114-15 Jaquet-Droz, Pierre, 114-15, 141 Jarry, Alfred, 260 Jean, Marcel, 183, 187 Jeter, K.W., 80, 86, 116, 194 "Johnny Mnemonic," 91, 279 John Paul II, Pope, 173 Juno, Andrea, 275