xviii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Sadie Plant is author of The Most Radical Gesture:the Situationist International in a Postmodern Age,Zeros+Ones:Digital Women+the New Technoculture and Writing on Drugs. Forest Pyle(trespyle@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU)is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon.He is the author of The ldeology of Imagination:Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism and of other essays on nineteenth and twentieth- century literature,film,and painting.A version of 'Making Cyborgs,Making Humans' will appear as a chapter in the book project he is presently completing:"From Which One Turns Away":a Radical Aestheticism at the Limits of Culture. Kevin Robins is Professor of Communications,Goldsmiths College,University of London.He is the author of Into the Image:Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision,and (with Frank Webster)of Times of the Technoculture. Andrew Ross(ar4@is.nyu.edu)is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in American Studies at New York University.His books include Real Love:In Pursuit of Cultural Justice,The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life:Nature's Debt to Society,Strange Weather: Culture,Science and Technology in the Age of Limits,No Respect:Intellectuals and Popular Culture,and,most recently,The Celebration Chronicles:Life,Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town.He has also edited several books including,most recently, No Sweat:Fashion,Free Trade,and the Rights of Garment Workers. Chela Sandoval(sandoval@sscf.ucsb.edu)is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Chicano Studies at University of California at Santa Barbara.Her book Methodology of the Oppressed is part of the Theory Out of Bounds series,and is forthcoming in Spring 2000. Ziauddin Sardar (ZSardar@compuserve.com)is a writer and cultural critic.Editor of Futures and co-editor of Third Text,he is also Visiting Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Arts Policy and Management,The City University,London.He is the author of The Future of Muslim Civilisation,Islamic Futures:The Shape of ldeas to Come, Barbaric Others:A Manifesto on Western Racism,Introducing Cultural Studies and Postmodernism and the Other.Islam,Postmodernism and Other Futures:a Ziauddin Sardar Reader(edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Gail Boxwell)will be published in early 2000. Vivian Sobchack (sobchack @ucla.edu)is an Associate Dean and Professor of Film and Television Studies at the UCLA School of Theater,Film and Television.Her work focuses on film and media theory and its intersections with philosophy,perceptual studies, historiography and cultural studies.Her books include Screening Space:The American Science Fiction Film,The Address of the Eye:A Phenomenology of Film Experience;two edited antholo- gies,The Persistence of History:Cinema,Television and the Modern Event and Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick Change;and a forthcoming collection of her own essays,Carnal Thoughts:Bodies,Texts,Scenes and Screens. Claudia Springer(clspringer@home.com)is a professor in the English Department and Film Studies Program at Rhode Island College.She is the author of Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age.Her writings on cyberculture have appeared in Screen,Now Time,Genders,The South Atlantic Quarterly and 21.C
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Xix Judith Squires (judith.squires@bristol.ac.uk)is a lecturer in political theory at the University of Bristol.She is the author of Gender in Political Theory and has co-edited several collections including Feminisms,Cultural Readings of Imperialism and Cultural Remix. She was the editor of New Formations 1990-97. Susan Leigh Star is Professor of Communication at the University of California,San Diego.She is the author or editor of Regions of the Mind:Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty:The Cultures of Computing;and,with Geoffrey Bowker,Sorting Things Out:Classification and Its Consequences.She has written on the social aspects of informa- tion technology and life sciences. Stelarc(stelarc@va.com.au)is an Australian performance artist.He has used medical instruments,prosthetics,robotics,Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore, extend and enhance the body's parameters.He has performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM,a VIRTUAL BODY,INDUSTRIAL ROBOT ARMS,a STOMACH SCULPTURE and a 6-LEGGED WALKING ROBOT.For FRACTAL FLESH,as part of Telepolis in Brussels,he developed STIMBOD-a touch-screen interfaced muscle stimulation system,enabling remote access and choreography of the body.Performances such as PING BODY and PARASITE probe notions of telematic scaling and the engi- neering of external,extended and virtual nervous systems for the body using the Internet. For Kampnagel Hamburg he completed EXOSKELETON-a pneumatically powered six-legged walking machine actuated and controlled by arm gestures.His current EXTRA EAR project is an attempt to construct an ear as a permanent addition to the face that, connected to a modem and a wearable computer,becomes an internet antenna,able to hear RealAudio sounds.In 1995 he received a three-year fellowship from the Visual Arts/Craft Board,The Australia Council.In 1997 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.In 1998 he was Artist-In-Residence for Hamburg City and was appointed a Research Consultant for the Faculty of Art and Design at the Nottingham Trent University.In 1999 he has carried out performances and presentations in Australia,Germany,Switzerland,Slovenia,Croatia,the Czech Republic,Italy,the UK and Mexico.His art is represented by the Sherman Galleries in Sydney.His website is at http://www.stelarc.va.com.au Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy)Stone(sandy@muq.org)is Associate Professor and Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab)at UT Austin,Resident Senior Artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts,and Resident Fellow in Autumn 1998 at the Humanities Research Institute,UC Irvine.In various incarnations she has been a filmmaker,rock 'n'roll music engineer,neurologist,social scientist, cultural theorist,and performer.She is the author of numerous publications including The Empire Strikes Back:A Posttranssexual Manifesto and The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Jon Stratton(tstratto @cc.curtin.edu.au)is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University in Perth,Western Australia.He has published widely in the area of cultural studies.His most recent book is Race Daze:Australia in Identity Crisis.At present he has a book of essays about post-assimilation Jewishness scheduled for publication in 2000,entitled Coming Out Jewish
Xx NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Susan Stryker(mulebaby @ricochet.net)earned her Ph.D.in United States History at the University of California at Berkeley in 1992,and currently holds a Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Sexuality Studies in the History Department at Stanford University.She was a contributing artist to Shu Lea Cheang's on-line multimedia installation Brandon,the premiere work in the Guggenheim Museum's new virtual gallery. Tiziana Terranova (T.Terranova@uel.ac.uk)teaches media and cultural studies at the University of East London.She has published her research on digitalisation and cultural politics in New Formations,Derive Approdi and the on-line journal,The Difference Engine. Richard Thieme (rthieme @thiemeworks.com;www.thiemeworks.com)consults, writes and speaks about the human dimensions of technology and the workplace,orga- nizational dynamics,and life on the edges.He has provided keynotes for Arthur Andersen, Alliant Energy,Firstar Bank,UOP,Strong Capital Management,the FBI,DefCon,and the Black Hat Briefings. David Tomas is professor in the Departement d'Art Plastiques at the Universite du Quebec in Montreal.In addition to being an artist whose multimedia work explores the cultures and transcultures of imaging systems,Tomas has written articles on the cultures of imaging systems,the history of cybernetics,cyborgs,and contemporary art practices. He is the author of Transcultural Space and Transcultural Beings and an internet book enti- tled The Encoded Eye,the Archive,and its Engine House.He is currently working on a series of drawings and a collection of essays that explore deviant approaches to the history of new media. Daniel Tsang(dtsang@uci.edu;http://go.fast.to/ar)is the politics,economics and Asian American studies bibliographer at University of California,Irvine.He writes for OC Weekly and hosts"Subversity,"a public affairs program on KUCI. Nina Wakeford is the Foundation Fund Lecturer in Sociology and a member of the Digital World Research Centre(http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/)at the University of Surrey.She is currently completing a book entitled Networks of Desire:Gender,Sexuality and Computing Culture and co-editing (with Peter Lyman)Analysing Virtual Society:New Directions in Methodology. Deena Weinstein is Professor of Sociology at DePaul University,specializing in mass media and popular culture,especially rock music.Her recent books include Heavy Metal: a Cultural Sociology(an updated version will be published in 2000).She is also a rock journalist,with frequent publications in a variety of magazines and alternative papers. Michael A.Weinstein is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University,special- izing in contemporary political and cultural theory,and contemporary ideologies.His most recent books include Culture/Flesh:Reflections on Post-Civilized Modernity,Data Trash(with Arthur Kroker)and Postmodernized Simmel(with Deena Weinstein).Weinstein is also a photography critic for New Art Examiner and Newcity,and a performance artist
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xxi Shawn P.Wilbur is a bookseller,and part-time university instructor at Bowling Green State University,where he is pursuing a PhD in American Culture Studies.He has been the co-editor of two electronic magazines,Liminal and Voices from the Net,and an admin- istrator at several text-based conferencing sites,including 1001 Plateaus and BayMOO. He is currently a member of the Spoon Collective,where he is working on the pilot project for a web-based'encyclopedia of political thought',and the administrative collec- tive for Spunk Library,an archive of free electronic texts on anarchism and related subjects. Michele Willson (michelewillson @hotmail.com)is an editor of Arena Magazine,and is currently undertaking a doctorate around the theme of community theory and infor- mation technologies in the Politics Department,Monash University. Randal Woodland (woodland@umich.edu)directs the Writing Program at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.He received his Ph.D from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a lecturer in UCLA Writing Programs.His current research projects include a study of the on-line experiences of lesbian,gay,bisexual, and transgender people. Susan Zickmund (Susan-Zickmund @uiowa.edu)is Visiting Assistant Professor, Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities,Department of Internal Medicine, University of lowa.She was a visiting professor at the University of Dortmund in Germany where she lectured on the radical right's use of the Internet.Her interests involve notions of identity,hermeneutics,and the existentialist thought of Martin Heidegger.She is currently conducting a hospital-wide study on the impact of chronic disease on a patient's sense of identification,self conception and existence
Acknowledgements We would firstly like to thank all the authors whose work we have reprinted here;their encouraging (and prompt)responses to our requests made the process very straight- forward.Thanks,too,to all those authors who gave us permission to edit their work for inclusion here.Christine Bridgwood provided immensely valuable assistance in tracking down the contributors(via the Internet,naturally).At Routledge,Rebecca Barden has been an enthusiastic(and very patient)editor,while Rebecca Russell,Alistair Daniel and Kate Oldfield have smoothed the production of the finished book.The contents of the Reader were also greatly improved thanks to the advice of a number of anonymous readers. We would also like to acknowledge the support of colleagues working in Media and Cultural Studies at Staffordshire University,and especially our students on the modules Technocultures and Cyberdiscourse,with whom we have discussed many of the essays from the collection,and the issues which they raise. 'Cyberspace:first steps',originally published in M.Benedikt (ed.)(1992)Cyberspace: First Steps,Cambridge,MIT. An archaeology of cyberspaces:virtuality,community,identity',originally published in D.Porter (ed.)(1997)Internet Culture,London:Routledge. 'Welcome to cyberia:notes on the anthropology of cyberculture,originally published in Current Anthropology 35(3)(1994). 'Cyberspace and the world we live in',originally published in K.Robins (1996)Into the Image:Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision,London:Routledge. 'Code warriors:bunkering in and dumbing down',originally published in A.Kroker and M.Kroker (1996)Hacking the Future:Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s,Montreal: New World Perspectives. 'From captain america to wolverine:cyborgs in comic books:alternative images of cybernetic heroes and villains',originally published in C.Gray (ed.)(1995)The Cyborg Handbook,London:Routledge