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Book Description Digital Delirium writes the new horizon of electronic culture. The latest addition to the Culture Texts Series, Digital Delirium brings together some of the best minds involved in rethinking technoculture in the 90s. Synopsis The latest book in the Culture Texts Series, Digital Delirium offers a manifesto against the right-wing politics of cyber-libertarianism and for rewiring the question of ethics to digital reality. From the cyber-streets of San Francisco to the most advanced cyber-research labs dealing with networked intelligence and artificial life, Digital Delirium asks what we see when we look in the digital mirror" cyber-utopia or a growing surplus class?. Synopsis A controversial manifesto against the right-wing politics of cyberlibertarianism and for rewiring the question of ethics to digital reality. The collective genius of some of the most creative minds of the digital generation explores what is lost and what is gained by being digital. Discussions range from the cyber-streets of San Francisco to the most advanced cyber-research labs dealing with networked intelligence and artificial life. From the Back Cover 30 Cyber-Days in San Francisco Digital Delirium writes the streets of San Francisco as a way of talking about the ambiguous legacy of wired culture. Digital Futures Digital Delirium interviews R.U. Sirius, Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, and Slavoj Zizek, and includes a state of the digital union address by Bruce Sterling. Net Politics The 90s began with a blast of techno-utopianism, but it will end with slow suicide in the surplus streets. Net Politics is the story of the 90s as a radically split reality: surplus class and virtual class, surplus flesh and virtual flesh, separate and digitally unequal. The Global Algorithm What is gained and what is lost by being digital? What do we see when we look in the digital mirror: Future-Fallout or Net-Utopia? Digital ears and diamond eyes or real blood and guts? Back to Cyberculture
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