'Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes' is an anthology of forty-three interviews with minds of all kinds. Disinformation named it “among the most important books published in 2007,” and Erik Davis called it “a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so.”

Spanning over seven years, 'Follow for Now' includes interviews with such luminaries as Bruce Sterling, Douglas Rushkoff, Philip K. Dick, Aesop Rock, Howard Bloom, David X. Cohen, Richard Saul Wurman, N. Katherine Hayles, Manuel De Landa, Shepard Fairey, Steven Johnson, Geert Lovink, Brenda Laurel, and many, many more — and interviews by John Brockman, Erik Davis, DJ Spooky, and Mark Dery, among others. See for yourself:

Table of Contents:

SCIENCE:
Eugene Thacker: Whole Earth DNA
Mark C. Taylor: The Philosophy of Culture
Steven Johnson: No Bitmaps for These Territories
Howard Bloom: Mind at Large
Terence McKenna: Struck By Noetic Lightning
Manuel De Landa: ILLogical Progression

TECHNOLOGY:
Howard Rheingold: Virtual Cartographer
Rudy Rucker: Keeping it Transreal (part 1)/Game Theory (part 2)
Albert-László Barabási: Think Networks
David Weinberger: Small Pieces
Eric Paulos: ExperiMental InterAction
Richard Saul Wurman: Technology, Entertainment, Design

MEDIA:
Eric Zimmerman: Play as Research
McKenzie Wark: To the Vector the Spoils
N. Katherine Hayles: Material Girl
Geert Lovink: Tracking Critical Net Culture
Brenda Laurel: Utopian Entrepreneur
Peter Lunenfeld: Critic as Curator
Erik Davis: Mysticism in the Machine
Gareth Branwyn: Media Jam
Douglas Rushkoff: The Thing That I Call “Doug”

MUSIC:
Mike Ladd: Rebel Without a Pause
Aesop Rock: Lyrics to Go
Pete Miser: Camouflage is Relative
Yoni Wolf and Richard Adams: The Sound of a Handshake
dälek: Gods and Griots
Weasel Walter: Killing Music
Milemarker: The Only Band That Matters
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky: Subliminal Minded

CULTURE:
Brian Coleman: Nostalgia is Def
Hal Brindley: Wild Boy
Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero
Paul Roberts: Peak Oil Recoil
Tod Swank: Foundation’s Edge
Shepard Fairey: Giant Steps
Steven Shaviro: Stranded in the Jungle
Mark Dery: Postfuture Shock

LITERATURE:
Steve Aylett: Rogue Volts of Satire
Philip K. Dick: Speaking with the Dead
Adam Voith: Missives from the Downtimes
David X. Cohen: Futurama’s Head (In a Jar)
Sean Gullette: Faith in Chaos
Bruce Sterling: Future Tense

Contributors include John Brockman, Erik Davis, Tom Georgoulias, Mark Dery, Mark Wieman, Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky, Brandon Pierce, and MC Paul Barman. Follow for Now also includes an extensive bibliography, a full index, and weighs in at nearly 400 pages.

More here: www.followfornow.com

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