Spasm
Subtitle: Virtual Reality, Android Music and Electric Flesh (CultureTexts)
Contributors: Bruce Sterling (Introduction)
Edition: Pap/Com edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 15, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780312096816
Subjects: Philosophy; Contemporary Art; Sociology; Future Studies; United States - 20th Century; Political Science / General; 1970-; 20th century; Arts, American; Civilization; Postmodernism; United States; Virtual reality
First sentence: A decade that stretches before us like a shimmering uncertainty field in quantum physics: its politics intensely violent, yet strangely tranquil; its culture conspiracy-driven, yet perfectly transparent; its media seductive, yet always nauseous; its population oscillating between utter fascination and deep boredom; its overall mood retro-fascist, yet smarmingly sentimental.