A cultural critic explores America on the eve of the millennium, discovering a paranoid, anxiety-ridden culture buffeted by the distabilizing social and economic effects of globalization. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Leading us through millennial America, from mainstream culture to the pop underground, the author delivers his thesis--that phenomena such as Disney, Nike, and teenage tribalism, are expressions of a broad-based social anxiety and that the reasons for the anxiety are both real and imagined. (view table of contents)

A critique of the Information Age explores the high-tech subcultures that have evolved as a result of technological advances, and discusses cyberpunks, technopagans, rogue technologists, and cyberhippies

Product Description: "Flame Wars," the verbal firefights that take place between disembodied combatants on electronic bulletin boards, remind us that our interaction with the world is increasingly mediated by computers. Bit by digital bit we are being "Borged," as devotees of Star Trek: The Next Generation would have it—transformed into cyborgian hybrids of technology and biology through our ever more frequent interaction with machines, or with one another through technological interfaces...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)