...Mark Dery Mark Dery Cyberculture By the late twentieth century, our time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. Donna Haraway Looking at our present trends . . . it s reasonable to assume that we will soon be unrecognizable...

...Mark Dery Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Mark Dery Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose [I]f all records told the same tale then the lie passed into history and became truth. Who con­ trols the past, ran the Party slogan...

...Mark Dery Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Mark Dery Flame Wars Flame wars, in compu-slang, are vitriolic on-line exchanges. Often, they are conducted publicly, in discussion groups clustered under thematic headings on electronic bulletin boards, or less frequently in the form...

...Mark Dery Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Mark Dery Signposts on the Road to Nowhere: Laurie Anderson s Crisis of Meaning The world is disappearing. Oliver Wendell Holmes augured this surreal state of affairs in The Stereoscope and the Stereograph, his 1859 essay on what...

... Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason 793 Denning, Michael, The Cartoonists Front 89 Dery, Mark, Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose 735 Dery, Mark, Flame Wars 559 Escobar, Ticio, The Furtive Avant-Gardes 461 Garcia Canclini, Nestor, Memory...

... (1974), The Motion of 856 Notes on Contributors Light in Water (his 1987 award-winning autobiography), The JewelHingedJaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (1977), and the Neveryon series (1979-87). mark dery is a cultural critic whose writings on technology and fringe culture have appeared...

... and interpretation of cultural change. mark dery is a cultural critic whose writings have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Interview, Elie, and Mondo 2000, for which he writes a quarterly column of cultural criticism. His articles have been included in underground anthologies such as Semiotext(e) (1992...

... Culture 269 DeCurtis, Anthony, Introduction: The Sanctioned Power of Rock & Roll 635 Dery, Mark, Signposts on the Road to Nowhere: Laurie Anderson s Crisis of Meaning 785 Dickstein, Morris, Fitzgerald s Second Act 555 Dobrenko, Evgeny, The Literature of the Zhdanov Era: Mentality, Mythology, Lexicon 323...

...: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century 161 DeCurtis, Anthony, What the Streets Mean: An Interview with Martin Scorsese 427 DeLillo, Don, The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed into Heaven 241 Dery, Mark, Cyberculture 501 Dominguez, Virginia R., Invoking Culture: The Messy Side of Cultural Politics" 19...

... is currently co-editing the revised The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll and The Rolling Stone Album Guide, which will be published in 1992. mark dery writes on pop culture, mass media, and the arts for the New York Times, New York, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Chi­ cago Tribune. His...

... in the last three years. 10 Computers have seduced some users away from face-to-face romantic interactions altogether. As cultural critic Mark Dery writes about the phenomenon he calls 716 Claudia Springer mechano-eroticism : The only thing better than making love like a machine, it seems, is making love...

... Machines (1991) and A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Zone Books, forthcoming), he also contributed an article to the 1993 SAQ spe­ cial issue Flame Wars, edited by Mark Dery. tessa dwyer is a graduate student in Art History and Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her article Literary...

.... Such an idea gave Perkins cold chills when he thought of the intimate information about Scribner s that he had revealed to Wolfe in unguarded moments of camara­ derie. Nor were such fears groundless, for in time Wolfe did indeed write about Scribner s; his depiction of James Rodney & Co. in Chapter 2 of You...

... Shocklee, quoted in Ebony and Ivory," an interview/conversation between Paul Simon and Hank Shocklee, Spin, January 1991, 84. 4 Mark Dery, Public Enemy: Confrontation, Keyboard, September 1990, 84: Rap, by definition, is political music. Fabricated from stolen snatches of prerecorded music by smash...

... of this essay. Mark Dery first solicited an article relevant to the theme of this issue; 1 declined for lack of time. Mr. Dery then requested a substantial piece of prose; I had nothing suitable. He then asked to print a chapter of Kalifornia, to which I agreed. But that seemed like a cheesy way of discharging...

... on academic pru­ dery. He will be especially thankful for a few American psychoanalytic books in which the faults noticed in the pre­ ceding paragraph are not very numerous.4 When he picks up Dr. Blanchard s book and sees how it makes definite the sounder concepts of psychoanalysis by showing straightfor­...

... of that alone. Anti-bohemianism, then, is not necessarily identical with pru­ dery and reaction. Often it is sanity, and that real and effective rebellion against sluggish society that, throughout the centuries, has changed and improved humanity s face. The anti-bohemians know that in literature...

... and high-tech fashion, but they also con­ tinued their seduction of what a friend of mine has called the leather theorists : Mark Dery began a column called Guerrilla Semiotics (which presupposed that mondoids knew what semiotics was), and in a later article called Terrorvision he explained Foucault s...

...), chap. 3. 20 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 159. 21 For a description of the details of this abstract machine, see Manuel DeLanda, Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason, in Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, ed. Mark Dery (Durham, 1994), 793-815. 22 Deleuze...

... streetfighters, who boldly operated with the support of those indus- 32. Bradstreet's, p. 780; Emery Deri, World Economic War Brewing The Magazine of Wall Street, 'il'.l (30 Jan. 1926), 601. 33. 1 am indebted for the Galloping Gertie analogy to J.H. Hexter, The History Primer (New York, 1971), pp. 118-40...