Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Terminal Image
Introduction
The Image Addict
The Society of the Spectacle
Cut-ups and White Noise
J.G. Ballard and the Mediascape
The Man Who Fell to Earth - Loving the Alien
The Schizoculture of Philip K. Dick
1. American Flagg! and Nam June Paik
2. Max Headroom - 20 Minutes into the Future
The Image Virus
The Electronic Nervous System
The Electronic Virus
William Burroughs, the Nova Mob, and the Silence Virus
Burroughs and Cronenberg - Word and Body
Videodrome
Ubik and the Reality Fix
Videodrome - The Death of Representation
Part 2. Terminal Space
Introduction - Electronic Space
Cyberspace
The Cybernetic (City) State
Blade Runner and Fractal Geography
Cyberpunk
Neuromancer
The Production of Cyberspace
The Paraspaces of Science Fiction
Worlds in Collision
Urban Zones and Cyber Zones
Return to Paraspace (Into the Quanta)
The SF Text as Paraspace
Coda - Baudrillard in the Zone
Part 3. Terminal Penetration
Narrative and Virtual Realities
Fun in Cyberspace
"True Names"
Cyberspace Cowboys - Kinetic Urban Subjects
1. Cyberspace and the Omnipotence of Thoughts
2. A Tactics of Kinesis
TRON - Cinema in Cyberspace
There's Always ... Tomorrowland
Part 4. Terminal Flesh
Introduction
Lifestyles of the Electronically Enhanced
The Persistence of Memory
Cyberpunks with a Plan
Terminal Cyborgs
The Extrustion of the Flesh
Alien
The Fly
Blood Music
Schismatrix - Living in the Posthuman Solar System
Bataille and the New Flesh
Cosmic Continuity
1. Buttonheads, Wireheads, and Charge Addicts
2. Antibodies
Boys' Toys from Hell
Crash
Limbo
Techno-Surrealism
Part 5. Terminal Resistance/Cyborg Acceptance
The Armored Body (and the Armored Arnold)
Feminist Resistance and a Romance Novel for Cyborgs
The End of Eden
The Body without Organs
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index