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145. David Levi Strauss, "Modern Primitives," in Re/Search 12: Modern Primitives,

ed. V. Vale and Andrea Juno (San Francisco: Re/Search, 1989), p. 158.

146. Herman Melville, Moby Dick or The Whale (New York: Vintage Books, 1991),

p. 53.

147. Ibid., p. 537.

148. Re/Search 12: Modern Primitives, p. 4.

149. Ibid., p. 153.

150. Rosalind Coward, The Whole Truth: The Myth of Alternative Health (London:

Faber & Faber, 1989), p. 197.

151. Ibid.

152. Mary Douglas, Re/Search 12: Modern Primitives, p. 195.

153. Ibid., pp. 4-5.

154. Rodley, ed., Cronenberg on Cronenberg, p. 65.

155. ReAearch 12: Modern Primitives, p. 36. 1 56. Ibid., p. 5.

157. Ibid.

158. Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium Is the Massage (New York:

Bantam, 1967), p. 63.

159. ''Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan," March 1969, p. 64.

160. Ibid., pp. 62, 64.

161. Ibid., p. 70.

162. Gibson, Burning Chrome (New York: Ace, 1987), p. 18.

163. Richard Kadrey, Metrophage (New York: Ace, 1988), p. 3.

164. Walter Jon Williams, Facets (New York: Tor, 1990), pp. 69-70.

165. Queen Mu and R. U. Sirius, editorial, Mondo 2000, no. 7 (fall 1989), p. 11;

Bukatman, Terminal Identity, p. 302.

166. William Gibson, Virtual Light (New York: Bantam Spectra, 1993), p. 220.

167. Dr. Fritz Billeter, "H. R. Giger's Environments," in H. R. Giger's Necronomicon

(Zurich, Switzerland: Edition C, 1981), p. 74.

168. Cliff Cadaver, "How to Make a Monster: Modifications for the Millen-

nium," Outlaw Biker Tattoo Revue 6, no. 31 (December 1993), unnumbered pages.

169. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 179; Cadaver, "How to Make a

Monster."

170. Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company,

1951), p. 11.

171. EX Marinetti, "Multiplied Man," p. 91.

172. Cyberpunk (VHS, 60 minutes, available from ATA/Cyberpunk, P.O. Box 12,

Massapequa Park, N.Y. 11762).

173. Gibson, Burning Chrome, p. 14; Gibson, Neuromancer, p. 59.

174. Cyberpunk.

175. Ibid.

176. Burt Brent, "Thoracobrachial Pterygoplasty Powered by Muscle Transposi-

tion Flaps," in The Artistry of Reconstructive Surgery: Classic Case Studies, vol. 2 (St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company, 1987), p. 967.

177. Ibid., p. 959.

178. Cyberpunk.

179. The New Hacker's Dictionary defines a 'Virehead" as a hardw^are hacker who

concentrates on communications systems; Gareth Branwyn notes that the term "specifically applies to techies who hack LANs (office networks), ToasterNets (cobbled-together Internet sites using cast-off" PCs and shareware), and telecom hardware hackers in general." But in Schismatrix, Bruce Sterling refers to the prosthetically enhanced, electronically interconnected Mechanists as "wireheads," and the term is loosely used in cyberpunk circles as a synonym for "aspiring cyborg." It is in this sense that it is used here.

180. Gareth Branwyn, "The Desire to Be Wired," Wired, September/October

1993, p. 65.

181. Ibid., p. 62.

182. Gibson, Neuromancer, p. 56.

183. John Leonard, "Gravity's Rainbow," Nation, November 15, 1993, p. 585.

184. David P. Snyder, "Repairing the Mind with Machines: The Supernormal

Possibilities of Prosthetics," Omni, September 1993, p. 14.

185. Ibid.

186. Janice M. Cauwels, The Body Shop: Bionic Revolutions in Medicine (St. Louis:

C. V. Mosby, 1986), pp. 208-9.

187. Snyder, "Repairing the Mind."

188. Ibid.

189. Ibid.

190. Darrell E. Ward, "Gaze Control," Omni, December 1988, p. 30.

191. Andrew Pollack, "Computers Taking Wish as Their Command," New York

Times, February 9, 1993, Section D, p. 2.

Notes 355

192. Branwyn, "The Desire to Be Wired," p. 113.

193. Ibid., p. 65.

194. Ibid.

195. R. A. Chase and Joseph M. Rosen, "Microsurgery: The Future," in The Hand

and Upper Limb Series, vol. 8: Microsurgery Procedures, ed. D. E. Meyer and M. J. M. Black (New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1991), pp. 261, 264, 265.

196. Bruce Sterling, "Sv^^arm," in Crystal Express, p. 15.

197. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (New York: W. W. Norton,

1961), pp. 38-39.

198. Jude Milhon, "Coming In under the Radar: Bruce Sterling Interviewed by

Jude Milhon," Mondo 2000, no. 7, p. 100.

199. Hine, Facing Tomorrow, p. 43.

200. Jeffrey Deitch, Post Human (Hamburg, Germany: Deichtorhallen Hamburg,

1992), second page of introductory essay (not numbered).

201. Ibid., unnumbered pages.

202. Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution

of Human Nature (Los Angeles: Jeremy R Tarcher, 1992), p. 28.

203. Michael Hutchison, Mega Brain Power: Transform Your Life with Mind Machines

and Brain Nutrients (New York: Hyperion, 1994), p. 429.

204. Stewart Brand, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T (New York:

Penguin, 1988), p. 200.

205. K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (New

York: Anchor, 1986), p. 234.

206. Grant Fjermedal, The Tomorrow Makers: A Brave New World of Living-Brain

Machines (Redmond, Wash.: Tempus Books, 1986), p. 8.

207. Scott Bukatman, "Who Programs You? The Science Fiction of the Spectacle,"

in Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Annette Kuhn (New York: Verso, 1990), p. 203.

208. Rodley, ed., Cronenberg on Cronenberg, p. 79; Scorsese is interviewed in

Chris Rodley's 1986 documentary on Cronenberg, Long Live the New Flesh.

209. Pat Cadigan, "Pretty Boy Crossover," in Patterns (Kansas City, Mo.: Ursus

Imprints, 1989), p. 129.

210. Jean Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra," in Simulations, trans. Paul

Foss, Paul Patton, and Philip Beitchman (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983),

p. 11.

211. Ballard, Cras/i, p. 1.

212. Ibid., p. 39.

213. Bruce Sterling, "Sunken Gardens," in Crystal Express, p. 89.

214. Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix (New York: Ace, 1985), p. 237.

215. Ibid., p. 183.

216. Ibid., pp. 282-83.

217. Ibid., pp. 286-87.

218. Ibid., p. 287.

219. Vernor Vinge, "Technological Singularity," Whole Earth Review, no. 81 (winter

1993), p. 89.

220. Ibid.

221. William Burroughs, "Dinosaurs," The Dial-a-Poem Poets /Better an Old Demon

than a New God (Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 033), LP.

222. Ibid.

223. Ibid.

224. Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival (New York: HarperCollins, 1991),

p. 230.

225. Ibid., p. 231.

226. Ibid., p. 232.

227. Ibid.

228. Hans Moravec, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence

(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 6.

229. Ibid., p. 102.

230. Ibid., p. 107.

231. Ibid., p. 112.

232. Ibid., p. 114.

233. David Ross, "Persons, Programs, and Uploading Consciousness," Extropy 4,

no. 1 (9), p. 14.

234. Ibid., p. 16.

235. Max More, "Technological Self-Transformation: Expanding Personal Ex-

tropy," Extropy 10, pp. 17, 20.

236. Norman Spinrad, Science Fiction in the Real World (Carbondale and Ed-

wardsville. 111.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), p. 133.

237. Ibid., p. 127.

238. More, "Self-Transformation," p. 17; Stelarc, Obsolete Body/Suspensions /

Stelarc (Davis, Calif: J. P Publications, 1984), p. 76.

239. More, "Self-Transformation," p. 16; "Join Us on the Leading Edge of the

Evolutionary Wave as We Build a Better Future!" undated flyer from the Extropy Institute.

Notes 357

240. "Sacred or For Sale?" in The Harper's Forum Book: What Are We Talking About?

ed. Jack Hitt (New York: Citadel Press, 1991), p. 307.

241. Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday &

Company, 1986), p. 140.

242. Max More, "Transhumanism: Towards a Futurist Philosophy," Extropy, no. 6

(summer 1990), p. 8.

243. Ibid.

244. Ibid., p. 23.

245. More, "Self-Transformation," p. 2 3.

246. Ibid., p. 24.

247. Max More, "Extropy Institute Launches," Extropy 9, p. 9.

248. All quotes this paragraph from Queen Mu and R. U. Sirius, editorial, Mondo

2000, no. 7, p. 11.

249. Andrew Ross, Strange Weather, p. 163.

250. Spinrad, Science Fiction, p. 129.

251. David Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (New York: W. W.

Norton, 1993), pp. 251-52.

252. Vinge, "Technological Singularity," p. 95.

253. Pamela McCorduck, Machines Who Think (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and

Company, 1979), pp. 354-55.

254. Ibid., p. 355.

255. Gareth Branwyn, "The Desire to Be Wired," p. 62.

256. Allucquere Rosanne Stone, "Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary

Stories about Virtual Cultures," in Cyberspace: First Steps, ed. Michael Benedikt (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991), p. 111.

257. Vivian Sobchack, "Baudrillard's Obscenity," Science-Fiction Studies, vol. 18, no.

55, part 3 (November 1991), p. 327.

258. Ibid., pp. 327-28.

259. Jean Baudrillard, "Ballard's Crash," Science-Fiction Studies, pp. 313, 319.

260. Sobchack, "Baudrillard's Obscenity," p. 329.

261. Michael Berenbaum, The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States

Holocaust Memorial Museum (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993), p. 147.

262. Ballard, Crash, p. 205.

263. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,"

in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken, 1969), p. 244.

264. Michael Synergy, "Hurtling towards the Singularity: Vernor Vinge Inter-

viewed by Michael Synergy," Mondo 2000, no. 7 (fall 1989), p. 116.

265. Hitt, ed., The Harper's Forum Book, p. 317.

266. Ibid., p. 322.

267. Andrew Ross, Strange Weather, p. 70.

268. Whole Earth Review, no. 63 (summer 1989), p. 53.

269. Moravec, Mind Children, p. 102; Hine, Facing Tomorrow, pp. 155-56.

2 70. Edward O. Wilson, "Is Humanity Suicidal?" New York Times Magazine, May 30, 1993, pp. 26-27.

271. Ibid., p. 27.

272. Michael G. Zey, Seizing the Future: How the Coming Revolution in Sci-

ence, Technology, and Industry Will Expand the Frontiers of Human Potential and Reshape the Planet (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 45.

273. Ibid.

274. Ibid., pp. 45, 368.

275. Ibid., p. 369.

276. Queen Mu and R. U. Sirius, editorial, Mondo 2000, no. 7, p. 11.

277. Ross, Strange Weather, p. 5.

278. Ibid., p. 12.

279. Ibid., p. 191.

280. Constance Penley and Andrew Ross, "Cyborgs at Large: Interview with

Donna Haraway," Technoculture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), p. 16; Zey, Seizing the Future, p. 109.

281. Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in

America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964), p. 207.

282. Fjermedal, Tomorrow Makers, p. 5.

283. Hine, Facing Tomorrow, pp. 154-55.

284. Fjermedal, Tomorrow Makers, p. 202.

285. Quoted in Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadencejrom Nefertiti to

Emily Dickinson (New York: Vintage, 1991), p. 17.

286. O. B. Hardison, Jr., Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology

in the Twentieth Century (New York: Penguin, 1989), p. 347.

287. Ibid.

288. Charles Piatt, The Silicon Man (New York: Bantam Spectra, 1991), p. 232.

289. William H. Calvin, The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain (New York:

Bantam, 1991), p. 59.

290. Ibid., p. xvii.

291. Erich Harth, The Creative Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind (Reading, Mass.:

Addison-Wesley, 1993), p. 131.

292. David Ross, "Persons, Programs, and Uploading Consciousness," p. 15.

293. Richard Restak, M.D., The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own: Insights from

a Practicing Neurologist (New York: Harmony Books, 1991), p. 119.

294. David Ross, "Persons, Programs, and Uploading Consciousness," p. 16.

295. Cadigan, Synners, p. 406.

Actuate/Rotate: EventJor Virtual Body, 156 Adams, Henry, 187-88 Adams, Judith A., 149 Advanced Animation, 142 Advertising, 142, 176,238

at Disney theme parks, 144-45

sexand, 184, 188, 279 Agee, James, 123

AIDS, 173, 218, 219, 225, 233-34, 281 Aitchison, Guy, 282 Albrecht, Bob, 26 Allen, Judith, 237 Allen, Woody, 199 "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving

Grace," 30 America Online, 5, 200, 20? A mtrak Express, 223-24 Anderson, Laurie, 234 Apple Macintosh, introduction of, 4, 28 Apple Newton Message Pad, 7 Arcadiou, Stelios, see Stelarc (ne Stelios

Arcadiou) Arizona Republic, 233 ARPANet, 5 Artificial intelligence, 8, 44, 55, 232, 305

composition of music by, 79, 86 Asimov, Isaac, 145 AT&T, 11-13 Audio-Animatronic technology, 115, 145, 147

Auto-amputation, technology as, 116-17,

160,164,234,319 Automation, 141, 145-46, 150 Automobiles, 143-45

automation of factories, 141, 145-46

sex and, 189-92 Axcess, 36

Babbage, Charles, 4

"Bacchic Pleasures," 33

Bacon, Francis, 176-77

Bainbridge, Jeff, 130

Ballard, J. G., 172, 175-76, 191-92, 212-13,

225, 234, 235, 245, 270-71, 273,

278, 296, 310 Balsamo, Anne, 205, 237, 246, 255, 256 Barker, Clive, 86, 88 Barlow, John Perry, 22, 33, 47-48, 56-57,