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.