Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I The Machine in the Garden

As We May Think

Vannevar Bush

``ada''

Sadie Plant

From Virtual Reality to the Virtualization of Reality

Slavoj Zizek

Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!

Paul Virilio

A Manifesto for Cyborgs

Donna Haraway

Machinic Heterogenesis

Felix Guattari

Part II Knowledge and Communication in a Digital Age

Johnny Mnemonic

William Gibson

The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace

Michael Heim

Virtually Female: Body and Code

Margaret Morse

Hypertext and Critical Theory

George Landow

Computers as Theatre

Brenda Laurel

The Information War

Hakim Bey

Part III Living in the Immaterial World

Dilemmas of Transformation in the Age of the Smart Machine

Shoshana Zuboff

Technology and the Future of Work

Stanley Aronowitz

The Theory of the Virtual Class

Arthur Kroker

Michael A. Weinstein

The Informational Economy

Manuel Castells

The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable World

Herbert I. Schiller

The Coming of Age of the Flesh Machine

Critical Art Ensemble

Part IV Performing Identity in Cyberspace

Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories about Virtual Cultures

Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone

A Rape in Cyberspace; or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society

Julian Dibbell

Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier

Laura Miller

We're Teen, We're Queer, and We've Got E-mail

Steve Silberman

Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet

Lisa Nakamura

Who Am We?

Sherry Turkle

Part V Searching for Community Online

Collective Intelligence

Pierre Levy

Cyberdemocracy: The Internet and the Public Sphere

Mark Poster

The Virtual Community

Howard Rheingold

The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier (or the Chicago Interneta)

Guillermo Gomez-Pena

A Disappearance of Community

Avital Ronell

Part VI Reading Digital Culture

History, Theory, and Virtual Reality

Robert Markley

The Seductions of Cyberspace

N. Katherine Hayles

New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000

Vivian Sobchack

Virtual Skin: Articulating Race in Cyberspace

Cameron Bailey

Towards a New Media Aesthetic

Timothy Allen Jackson

The New Smartness

Andrew Ross

Index