Synopses & Reviews
Spasm is the 1990s. A theory-fiction about the crash world of virtual reality, from the cold sex of Madonna Mutant, the pure sex of Michael Jackson and the dead sex of Elvis to the technological fetishes of Silicon Valley. Written from the perspectives of cultural politics, music, photography, cinema and cyber-machine art,
Spasm explores the ecstasy and fadeout of wired culture. Here, we suddenly find ourselves the inhabitants of a glittering, but vaguely menacing, technological galaxy where the machines finally begin to speak.
Spasm is a book/CD to take along with you on your hacker journey of the electronic frontier.
Table of Contents
Preface: Premonition of Spasm, Bruce Sterling
1. Spasm (in 4 sections for the WWW)
2. Scenes from the Recombinant Body
3. Organs Without Bodies: The Liquid Ideology of Virtual Reality
4. Cyber Ears
5. Spasm: The Sound of Virtual Reality I
6. Spasm: The Sound of Virtual Reality II, Steve Gibson
7. Crash Machines
8. Severed Heads: Fetish Freaks and Body Outlaws in the Age of Recombinant Photography
9. Spasm: The Screen (Excremental TV)
10. Spasm: The End (Baudrillard Recombinant)
11. Spasm: The Empire (Virtual America: Let the Dead Bury the Living)
Notes