SPASM : virtual reality, android music, and electric flesh
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Arthur Kroker
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: St. Martin's Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 1993
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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177p.
Other Physical Details
: ill.
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CultureTexts
GENERAL NOTES
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Code E.Book: 9927
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Compact disc has title: Spasm : the sound of virtual reality / Steve Gibson
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Accompanying sound recording shelved in the Recorded Sound Section of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Premonition of Spasm or Why I read Arthur Kroker / Bruce Sterling -- Spasm -- Scenes from the recombinant body -- Organs without bodies: the liquid ideology of virtual reality -- Cyber ears --Spasm: the sound of virtual reality I -- Spasm: the sound of virtual reality II / Steve Gibson --Crash machines -- Severed heads: fetish freaks and body outlaws in the age of recombinant photography -- Spasm: the screen. Excremental TV -- Spasm: the end. Baudrillard recombinant --Spasm: the empire. Virtual America: let the dead bury the living.