Borg Like Me: & Other Tales of Art, Eros, and Embedded Systems - Softcover

Branwyn, Gareth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692233237 ISBN 13: 9780692233238

Publisher: Sparks of Fire Press, 2014

Synopsis

A comprehensive collection of cyberculture pioneer Gareth Branwyn’s best work, Borg Like Me spans a 30-year writing career. The book covers Branwyn’s coming of age in a commune, his involvement in the 90s zine publishing scene, his tenure at influential cyber arts and culture mags Mondo 2000, bOING bOING, Wired, and his eight years at MAKE, spearheading the growing maker movement. Previously published material is woven throughout with Branwyn’s unabashedly honest commentary, personal anecdotes, and original essays. Read about the smart-druggies behind Mondo 2000, impersonating Billy Idol in cyberspace (for Billy Idol), the making of the iconic early 90s hypermedia book, Beyond Cyberpunk!, and Branwyn going positively Phillip K. Dick after a heart attack and a bad blood transfusion. Borg Like Me is a smart, passionate, intense trip along the bleeding edges of art, technology, and culture at the turn of the 21st century.

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From the Back Cover:

Borg Like Me is a smart, passionate, intense trip along the bleeding edges of art, technology, and culture at the turn of the 21st century.

A comprehensive collection of cyberculture pioneer Gareth Branwyn's best work, Borg Like Me spans an over 30 year writing career. The book covers Branwyn's coming of age in a hippie commune, his involvement in the 90s zine publishing scene, his tenure at influential cyber arts and culture mags Mondo 2000, bOING bOING, and Wired, and his eight years at MAKE, spearheading the growing maker movement. Previously published material is interwoven throughout with Branwyn's unabashedly honest commentary, personal anecdotes, and original essays.

Read about the smart-druggies behind Mondo 2000, impersonating Billy Idol in cyberspace (for Billy Idol), the making of the iconic early 90s hypermedia book, Beyond Cyberpunk!, and Branwyn going positively P.K. Dick after a heart attack and a bad blood transfusion.

What Others Have Said About Gareth and His Work:

"Gareth Branwyn -- superconductor of cyberculture... a hip McLuhan of the plugged-in age."
- Washington Post

"Brilliant writing, impressive scholarship."
- Toronto Globe & Mail
(review of Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots)

"Gareth Branwyn is a highly-charged countercultural electromagnet."
Cyberpunk godfather and sci-fi/horror icon John Shirley

"...a shining example of why weird wins."
-Weird Hero Award
Laika Studios (Coraline, ParaNorman)

"Gareth Branwyn tracks this media like no one else."
Countercultural iconoclast and Mondo 2000 founder RU Sirius

About the Author:

Gareth Branwyn has spent his adult life writing about DIY media and technology, fringe culture, art, culture jamming, and the internet. He was an editor at Mondo 2000, a contributing column editor for Wired for 12 years, an editor at bOING bOING (print), and the co-creator of the seminal hypermedia ebook, Beyond Cyberpunk! Gareth also wrote the first book about the web, Mosaic Quick Tour: Accessing and Navigating the World Wide Web, and co-authored the Happy Mutant Handbook, with the editors of bOING bOING. He has written or edited over a dozen books. Most recently, he was the Editorial Director of Maker Media/MAKE magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sparks of Fire Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0692233237
• ISBN 13: 9780692233238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296