Book Details
Title: Transit Lounge; Wake-up Calls & Traveller's Tales from the Future
Author: Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar (Editors)
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: 21 C/Interface
Year: 1997
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback in plastic sleeve
Pages: 192
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 90 5704 11 11
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact with some shelf wear to the extremities. The plastic sleeve, whilst protective is ill-fitting, with a gap on the top of the rear and has caused some pulling on cover edges. Light scuffing.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact with some yellowing at margins. Some pages (closer to front and rear of the book) have creases, dog earing and a couple have small tears at the edges. There are ink markings next to the table of contents as pictured.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
" "A brilliant series of articles that read like news bulletins from the future. Everyone on the way to the day after tomorrow should read TRANSIT LOUNGE - gripping and engrossing." - J.G. Ballard".
From the Publisher -
"‘Transit Lounge’ collects together in one volume the meat of essays from the much lamented and sadly missed publications 21•C and World Art.
Featured are insightful essays by Greil Marcus, Darren Tofts, McKenzie Wark, Mark Dery, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, R.U. Sirius, and many others. ‘Transit Lounge’ also features commentary from J.G. Ballard and an introduction by cyberpunk author William Gibson.
Unlike other publications of the ‘Information Age’, 21•C under the strong editorship of Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar managed to steer clear of the excesses and frequent hyperbole that has accompanied the explosive growth of the Internet and ‘Third Wave’ corporations. The articles in ‘Transit Lounge’ read like mini research reports from the future, critical in tone, well-crafted, and notably have conscience, and sometimes even dissent.
Some of the many highlights include Bruce Sterling on ‘Industrial Memory’; Mark Dery’s insightful interviews with Mark Davis and Andrew Ross and distillation of the film ‘Crash’; McKenzie Wark on the rise of N.W.O. culture and its paranoid Black Helicopter emblems; analysis of the ‘military-entertainment’ complex (Wark); and profiles of the late Kathy Acker, Noam Chomsky, Sadie Plant, Survival Research Laboratories, Stelarc, Hans Moravec, Nicholas Negroponte, Philip K. Dick, David Cronenberg, the Extropians, J.G. Ballard, and Frank Tippler, amongst others.
‘Transit Lounge’ stands apart from the wealth of by now trendy cyber-crit anthologies by drawing upon the critical voices of diverse specialists and analysts, painting a broad but detailed mosaic of 21st Century culture.
– Alex Burns"
Book Details
Title: Transit Lounge; Wake-up Calls & Traveller's Tales from the Future
Author: Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar (Editors)
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: 21 C/Interface
Year: 1997
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback in plastic sleeve
Pages: 192
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 90 5704 11 11
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact with some shelf wear to the extremities. The plastic sleeve, whilst protective is ill-fitting, with a gap on the top of the rear and has caused some pulling on cover edges. Light scuffing.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact with some yellowing at margins. Some pages (closer to front and rear of the book) have creases, dog earing and a couple have small tears at the edges. There are ink markings next to the table of contents as pictured.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
" "A brilliant series of articles that read like news bulletins from the future. Everyone on the way to the day after tomorrow should read TRANSIT LOUNGE - gripping and engrossing." - J.G. Ballard".
From the Publisher -
"‘Transit Lounge’ collects together in one volume the meat of essays from the much lamented and sadly missed publications 21•C and World Art.
Featured are insightful essays by Greil Marcus, Darren Tofts, McKenzie Wark, Mark Dery, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, R.U. Sirius, and many others. ‘Transit Lounge’ also features commentary from J.G. Ballard and an introduction by cyberpunk author William Gibson.
Unlike other publications of the ‘Information Age’, 21•C under the strong editorship of Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar managed to steer clear of the excesses and frequent hyperbole that has accompanied the explosive growth of the Internet and ‘Third Wave’ corporations. The articles in ‘Transit Lounge’ read like mini research reports from the future, critical in tone, well-crafted, and notably have conscience, and sometimes even dissent.
Some of the many highlights include Bruce Sterling on ‘Industrial Memory’; Mark Dery’s insightful interviews with Mark Davis and Andrew Ross and distillation of the film ‘Crash’; McKenzie Wark on the rise of N.W.O. culture and its paranoid Black Helicopter emblems; analysis of the ‘military-entertainment’ complex (Wark); and profiles of the late Kathy Acker, Noam Chomsky, Sadie Plant, Survival Research Laboratories, Stelarc, Hans Moravec, Nicholas Negroponte, Philip K. Dick, David Cronenberg, the Extropians, J.G. Ballard, and Frank Tippler, amongst others.
‘Transit Lounge’ stands apart from the wealth of by now trendy cyber-crit anthologies by drawing upon the critical voices of diverse specialists and analysts, painting a broad but detailed mosaic of 21st Century culture.
– Alex Burns"
