Grunge Futurism
Julian Loose, 4 November 1993
Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Post-Modern Science Fiction
by Scott Bukatman.
Duke, 416 pp., £15.95, August 1993,0 8223 1340 5 Show More
by Scott Bukatman.
Duke, 416 pp., £15.95, August 1993,
“... systems. Slap on a pair of dermatrodes, punch the keys on your cyberspace deck, and you ‘jack in’, propelling your disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination of the matrix. The fastest kids on the virtual block are the console cowboys, ‘casing mankind’s extended electronic nervous system, rustling data and credit’, and always ... ”