America's most dangerous man -- according to Richard Nixon -- and the Pied Piper of Youth is BACK! This book is about designing Chaos and fashioning your personal disorder: On screens with cyber tools from counterculture perspectives with informational chemicals (Chaos drugs) while delighting in cybernetics as guerrilla artists who explore de-animation alternatives while surfing the waves of millennium madness to glimpse the glorious wild impossibilities and improbabilities of the century to come. Enjoy it! It's ours to be played with! Chaos & CyberCulture conveys Timothy Leary's vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and the empowerment of computers and other technologies. Leary's last great work, this book includes over 100,000 words in 40 chapters and 80 illustrations, as well as conversations with William Gibson, Winona Ryder, William S. Burroughs, and David Byrne. Timothy Leary, the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru of the '60s counterculture, has reemerged as an icon of the new edge cyberpunks.

Le sujet de cet ouvrage est une nouvelle conception du chaos et la mise en forme de nos désordres personnels.. Sur nos écrans. Grâce aux outils cybernétiques. Et à l'évocation des contre-cultures. Grâce aux substances de la connaissance (les drogues du chaos). Aux délices du cybersexe. En tant qu'artistes guérilleros. Qui explorent des possibilités nouvelles. En surfant sur les vagues de la folie millénariste. Les yeux fixés sur les merveilles à venir ou à ne pas venir. Au cours du siècle prochain. Tout ça pour vous, amis lecteurs ! Amusez-vous bien ! Chaos et Cyberculture reflète la conviction de Timothy Leary selon laquelle le vingt-et-unième siècle verra l'émergence d'un nouvel humanisme, dont les idées forces seront la contestation de l'autorité, la liberté de pensée, la créativité personnelle, le tout soutenu et encouragé par la vulgarisation de l'ordinateur et des nouvelles technologies de la communication. Cet ouvrage, qui représente la plus importante contribution de l'auteur depuis les années 60, comporte quarante chapitres et plus de quatre-vingts illustrations. On y trouve d'intéressants entretiens avec des personnalités de la littérature, de la musique et du cinéma, qui sont aussi des amis de Leary : William Gibson, W>illiam S. Burroughs, David Byrne et Winona Ryder. On connaissait Timothy Leary comme le gourou visionnaire des années 60, on le retrouve ici comme le chef de file des cyberpunks de la nouvelle génération.

Needing guidance and seeking insight, the Council of Europe approached Pierre Lévy, one of the world's most important and well-respected theorists of digital culture, for a report on the state (and, frankly, the nature) of cyberspace. The result is this extraordinary document, a perfectly lucid and accessible description of cyberspace-from infrastructure to practical applications-along with an inspired, far-reaching exploration of its ramifications. A window on the digital world for the technologically timid, the book also offers a brilliant vision of the philosophical and social realities and possibilities of cyberspace for the adept and novice alike. In an overview, Lévy discusses the distinguishing features of cyberspace and cyberculture from anthropological, philosophical, cultural, and sociological points of view. An optimist about the future potential of cyberspace, he eloquently argues that technology-and specifically the infrastructure of cyberspace, the Internet-can have a transformative effect on global society. Some of the issues he takes up are new art forms; changes in relationships to knowledge, education, and training; the preservation of linguistic and cultural differences; the emergence and implications of collective intelligence; the problems of social exclusion; and the impact of new technology on the city and democracy in general. In considerable detail, Lévy describes the ways in which cyberspace will help promote the growth of democracy, primarily through the participation of individuals or groups. His analysis is enlivened by his own personal impressions of cyberculture-garnered from bulletin boards, mailing lists, virtual reality demonstrations, andsimulations. Immediate in its details, visionary in its scope, deeply informed yet free of unnecessary technical language, Cyberculture is the book we require in our digital age. --Publisher.

Technoculture is culture--such is the proposition posited in Technoscience and Cyberculture, arguing that technology's permeation of the cultural landscape has so irrevocably reconstituted this terrain that technology emerges as the dominant discourse in politics, medicine and everyday life. The problems addressed in Technoscience and Cyberculture concern the ways in which technology and science relate to one another and organize, orient and effect the landscape and inhabitants of contemporary culture.

A wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the fast-changing world of cyberculture.