Full Description
America's most dangerous man -- according to Richard Nixon -- and the Pied Piper of Youth is BACK! This book is about designing Chaos and fashioning your personal disorder: On screens with cyber tools from counterculture perspectives with informational chemicals (Chaos drugs) while delighting in cybernetics as guerrilla artists who explore de-animation alternatives while surfing the waves of millennium madness to glimpse the glorious wild impossibilities and improbabilities of the century to come. Enjoy it! It's ours to be played with! Chaos & CyberCulture conveys Timothy Leary's vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and the empowerment of computers and other technologies. Leary's last great work, this book includes over 100,000 words in 40 chapters and 80 illustrations, as well as conversations with William Gibson, Winona Ryder, William S. Burroughs, and David Byrne. Timothy Leary, the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru of the '60s counterculture, has reemerged as an icon of the new edge cyberpunks.
Contents
Prefatory Note by Susan Sarandon Editor's Note by Michael Horwitz Preface: The Eternal Philosophy of Chaos by Timothy Leary Introduction to Anniversary Edition Cyber-Seance with Leary by V. Vale, Publisher of RE/Search Publications. Part 1 SCREEBS: 1. How I Became an Amphibian 2. Custom-Sized Screen Realities 3. Imagineering Part 2: CYBERNETICS: CHAOS ENGINEERING 1. Conversation with William Gibson 2. Artificial Intelligence: Hesse's Prophetic Glass Bead Game 3. Our Brain 4. How to Boot-Up Your Bio-Computer 5. Personal Computers, Personal Freedom 6. Quantum Jumps, Your Mac and You Part 3 COUNTERCULTURES 1. The Woodstock Generation 2. From Yippies to Yuppies 3. The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot 4. The New Breed 5. Electronic Cultures 6. The Next Twenty Years 7. The Godparent: Conversation with Winona Ryder Part 4 INFO-CHEMICALS & DRUG WARS 1. Conversation with William S Burroughs 2. The Sociology of LSD 3. Just Say Know 4. Czar Bennett & His Holy War on Drugs 5. MDMA: The Drug of the 1980s 6. The Case for Intelligent Drug Use Part 5 CYBEROTICS 1. Hormone Holocost 2. In Search of the True Aphrodisiac 3. Operation Sex Change 4. Digital Activation of the Erotic Brain Part 6 GUERILLA ART 1. Pranks: An Interview 2. Keith Haring: Future Primeval 3. Robert William: Power to the Pupil 4. On William S Burrough's Interzone 5. How to Publish Heresy in Mainline Publications 7. reproduced Authentic: The Wizardry of David Byrne 8. Conversation with David Byrne Part 7 DE-ANIMATION/RE-REANIMATION 1. Common-Sense Alternatives to Involuntary Death 2. Hybernating Andy Part 8 MILLENNIUM MADNESS 1. Backward Christian Soldiers 2. God Runs for President 3. Who Owns the Jesus Property? 4. High-Tech Paganism Part 9 EPILOGUE 1. Brillig in Cyberland Part 10 RESOURCES 1. Checklist of Primary Works by Timothy Leary 2. Bibliographic Data 3. List of Illustrations 4. Cybertising
