Spasm [Arthur Kroker]

[VR] [Noise] [Cybernetics]

Spasm

Arthur Kroker

St Martins Press, NY. 1993. Paperback edition. Some soiling to text block edge; price tag remnants on rear, interior clean. No CD included. A very good copy.

From the publisher:

"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 nostalgia for distortion. Total freak out hacker cybernetics from the early days of the internet, before we all got shunted into the capitalist death machine pay to pay demiurgic nightmare. Essential rivethead text, canon.