Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens

Leary, Timothy

ISBN 10: 1579510841 / ISBN 13: 9781579510848

Published by Ronin Pub, Berkeley, California, U.S.A., 2008

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Dr Leary's speculations on the importance of computers and interactive media in achieving liberation and personal fulfillment. Published @ $12.95.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens
• Publisher: Ronin Pub, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579510841
• ISBN 13: 9781579510848
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophical Studies

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Synopsis

This timely book, Timothy Leary's "cyberpunk manifesto," is his future-vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and empowerment via computers and brain technologies. Cyberpunks brings together some of Leary’s most provocative writings, along with selections from interviews and conversations with a variety of writers and thinkers. Individual chapters include “How I Became an Amphibian,” “Personal Computers; Personal Freedom,” and “Navigational Game Plane.” “How to Boot Up Your Bio-Computer” typifies Leary’s outrageous yet surprisingly grounded ideas, linking pagan, nature-based rituals with a “collective boot-up” of the brain through stimulation from certain natural plants. Together, these pieces describe a new breed of human being who embraces technology, uses it to revolutionize communication and evade and annoy Big Brother, while at the same time achieving personal success, attaining political power, and above all, having fun.