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Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music and Electric Flesh (Culturetexts) [Paperback]

Arthur Kroker (Author), Bruce Sterling (Introduction)
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Culturetexts August 15, 1993
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.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 185 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (August 15, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 031209681X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312096816
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,926,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars All That Is Solid Melts Into Air..., January 8, 2001
This review is from: Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music and Electric Flesh (Culturetexts) (Paperback)
'All that is solid melts into air'... description of advanced capitalism by Marx. These words are a good description of how our media landscape transforms the meaning of anything... Arthur Kroker in his book and CD 'Spasm' give us the sound and insight into this 'meltdown' taking place all around us. Like Marshall McLuhan, Kroker asks "What haven't you noticed lately?" Kroker goes ahead and tells you, from biotechnology to music sampling, he hangs on a point of view - before it melts...

Bruce Sterling's introduction to Kroker's 'Spasm' is worth the price of admission alone, it's short, but sets the tone.

You will not always agree, but you will think, not many books or CDs that do that these days. Give Kroker a spin.

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A decade that stretches before us like a shimmering uncertainty field in quantum physics: its politics intensely violent, yet strangely tranquil; its culture conspiracy-driven, yet perfectly transparent; its media seductive, yet always nauseous; its population oscillating between utter fascination and deep boredom; its overall mood retro-fascist, yet smarmingly sentimental. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
android processors, crash aesthetics, recombinant body, sampler music, cynical sacrifice, body telematic, digital tongue, sampler culture, recombinant culture, technological dynamo, sampler machine, android music, digital reality, cynical ear, electronic cage, body recombinant, sound matrix, crash machines, crash music, virtual sound, crash bodies, liquid self, nostalgia for the future, recombinant genetics, vocal samples
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Madonna Mutant, Michael Jackson, Johnny Mnemonic, Steve Gibson, Linda Dawn Hammond, Toni Denise, Baudrillard Recombinant, Bush Med, The Accelerated Body, Three Part Body Series, United States, Gulf War, Lamb of God, Ministry Gtr, Ritual Mechanics, Buffalo River Grain Elevators, John Zorn, Radio Prague, David Therrien Photo, Don Lewis, Jam Metal, Star Trek
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