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- From: Joachim_Hoss@k.maus.de (Joachim Hoss)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Mondo Bashing, etc.
- Message-ID: <A6302@HB.maus.de>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 06:18:00 GMT
- Organization: MausNet (Mitglied im IN e.V.)
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- Hi everybody!
-
- In an article, Jason Steiner (jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu) writes:
- >ckile@andy.bgsu.edu (crystal kile) writes:
- >>
- >> The best thing about _Mondo_ is that it is concerned with a broad
- >> range of topics and things of concern to cyberCULTURE. I think
- >> that it's fantastic that as well as taking up discussions of VR,
- >> smart drugs, multi-media, et cetera, they also present really
- >> spinning interviews with folks like Avital Ronell
- >> (deconstructionist critic, author of _The Telephone Book:
- >> Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech_ and _Crack Wars:
- >> Literature, Addiction, Mania_ -- excellent, engaging works, BTW),
- >> Constance Penley, and Diamanda Galas, and pretty well-footnoted
- >> articles on stuff like the panopticon. It's great to see stuff that
- >> has previously been cloistered in some of the wilder academic
- >> journals and debates begin to "trickle down" to the "reading
- >> public."
- >
- >sounds like a poor, slick version of Whole Earth Review to me...
- >
- >i saw my first ish of Mondo this weekend & it was pathetic. i'm not
- >going to say it isn't cyberpunk, or that it shouldn't be published
- >or any such silly thing. it was just so bright & happy & glossy
- >& completely free of nutritional content i almost gagged from the
- >sweetness.
- >
- >jason
-
- Here in Germany you don't get MONDO 2000 but with the things i read about it in
- the "Interface" Magazine by Prometheus Press, I don't know wether I should be
- sad about it or not: (from an answer to a letter to the editors)
- "(...) The comment about MONDO 2000 is something else I am confused about. In
- what way are we to follow their example? Smart drugs in game play? Interview
- Mark Pauline from Survival Research Laboratories? Maybe include stats on some
- of his creations?Imagine one of his inventions being controlled by an AI. We're
- a gaming publication, they're a neo-crypto-cyber-yuppie journal. We've known
- about MONDO 2000 for quite some time, even in the days when it was called
- Reality Hackers, and since it is published in Berkley, we have no trouble
- finding it.
- Lift any trash lid in the Bay Area and you'll find one. (...)"
- I think probably I shoudn't be all to sad.
-
- Joachim Hoss
- Cologne, Germany
- Joachim_Hoss@k.maus.de
-