Cyberpunks (Reboot Your Brain)
This timely book, Timothy Leary's cyberpunk manifesto, is his future-vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and empowerment via computers and brain technologies. Cyberpunks brings together some of Leary's most provocative writings, along with selections from interviews and conversations with a variety of writers and thinkers. Individual chapters include "How I Became an Amphibian," "Personal Computers; Personal Freedom," and "Navigational Game Plane." "How to Boot Up Your Bio-Computer" typifies Leary's outrageous yet surprisingly grounded ideas, linking pagan, nature-based rituals with a "collective boot-up" of the brain through stimulation from certain natural plants. Together, these pieces describe a new breed of human being who embraces technology, uses it to revolutionize communication and evade and annoy Big Brother, while at the same time achieving personal success, attaining political power, and above all, having fun.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1579510841
ISBN13:9781579510848
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:Ronin Publishing (CA)
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.3" x 8.1"
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2 ratings
great compendium
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This book is a compendium of various articles and interviews, that's why it was published in 2008. Still I don't understand how it's possible there are references to Obama and Paris Hilton if Leary died in 1996. Looks like it was half-written by somebody else. BTW, the Cyberpunks Manifesto by Kristyan Kirchev published at the end is a plain cyber-routine void of any new ideas. It only spoils the book.
Very cool
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The thing I don't understand is the published in 2008? Are these new unpublished writings? He died in the 90s ...
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