The virtues of Bad Thoughts
Las Vegas City Life: Mark Dery's essays insist on the intellectual freedom to explore the dark areas of our culture
Prescience, it seems, is Mark Dery's greatest gift, and his greatest curse.
The two books he is most associated with -- 1993's Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping In The Empire of Signs and 1996's Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century -- were groundbreaking explorations of what was, at the time, a shadowy demimonde of detournement junkies and hacker outlaws, using the establishment tool of postwar technology and media as a fulcrum upon which to move the world.
Published in: Las Vegas City Life
By: Joshua Ellis
Story Date: 2012-04-26T00:00:00
By: Joshua Ellis
Story Date: 2012-04-26T00:00:00