{"product_id":"flame-wars-the-discourse-of-cyberculture-paperback","title":"Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Dery\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Flame Wars,\" the verbal firefights that take place between disembodied combatants on electronic bulletin boards, remind us that our interaction with the world is increasingly mediated by computers. Bit by digital bit we are being \"Borged,\" as devotees of \u003ci\u003eStar Trek: The Next Generation\u003c\/i\u003e would have it--transformed into cyborgian hybrids of technology and biology through our ever more frequent interaction with machines, or with one another through technological interfaces. \u003cbr\u003eThe subcultural practices of the \"incurably informed,\" to borrow the cyberpunk novelist Pat Cadigan's coinage, offer a precognitive glimpse of mainstream culture in the near future, when many of us will be part-time residents in virtual communities. Yet, as the essays in this expanded edition of a special issue of the \u003ci\u003eSouth Atlantic Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e confirm, there is more to fringe computer culture than cyberspace. Within these pages, readers will encounter flame warriors; new age mutant ninja hackers; technopagans for whom the computer is an occult engine; and William Gibson's \"Agrippa,\" a short story on software that can only be read once because it gobbles itself up as soon as the last page is reached. Here, too, is Lady El, an African American cleaning woman reincarnated as an all-powerful cyborg; devotees of on-line swinging, or \"compu-sex\"; the teleoperated weaponry and amok robots of the mechanical performance art group, Survival Research Laboratories; an interview with Samuel Delany, and more.\u003cbr\u003eRallying around Fredric Jameson's call for a cognitive cartography that \"seeks to endow the individual subject with some new heightened sense of place in the global system,\" the contributors to \u003ci\u003eFlame Wars\u003c\/i\u003e have sketched a corner of that map, an outline for a wiring diagram of a terminally wired world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Anne Balsamo, Gareth Branwyn, Scott Bukatman, Pat Cadigan, Gary Chapman, Erik Davis, Manuel De Landa, Mark Dery, Julian Dibbell, Marc Laidlaw, Mark Pauline, Peter Schwenger, Vivian Sobchack, Claudia Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlame Wars\" . . . connects the dots of cyberculture's pixilated universe.\"--\"Voice Literary Supplement\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Dery is a cultural critic whose writings on technology and fringe culture have appeared in t\u003ci\u003ehe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMondo 2000\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 354\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 9.02 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 27, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52765081567539,"sku":"9780822315407","price":71.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NS9wR0p5a3UzMVQzRktyczZLaUU4Zz09.webp?v=1764612187","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/flame-wars-the-discourse-of-cyberculture-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}