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