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2026 1

  1. Deliria2: Cyberpunks Mutants & Mondoids

2024 2

  1. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th Century Tech Culture.
  2. Mondo 2000’s R.U. Sirius Invites All to Join Him & His Phriendz in the Gulf of Deliria

2023 6

  1. Leary, Mondo2000, and TESCREAL
  2. Review Sacred Rites by Antero Alli
  3. Turn On, Tune In, Boot Up! For MozFest 2023:
  4. Simcerity: R.U. Against NFTs (period question mark or exclamation point) Join MONDO Vanilli & R.U. Sirius in VR on March 20
  5. Gimme Helter MONDO Vanilli 1994 – Video 2023
  6. Buy My Apocalypse Songs (15 Lyrics In Search Of Music)

2022 2

  1. R.U. Sirius Philosophy Of Modern Song… naaa…
  2. Infinite Gesture — 21 Lyrics in Search of Music

2020 3

  1. Head in the clouds, boots on the ground.
  2. To Mainline the Pure Dope of Illuminatus!
  3. Grant Morrison Surveys the Situation In “The Age of Horus”

2019 5

  1. Help Chelsea Raise Funds To Resist A Grand Jury Subpoena
  2. A Conversation with Projekt Seahorse a.k.a. Aaron Moun10
  3. The President Addresses The Nation
  4. ASD PSP Update: What We Know About Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition Software with Body Cameras – Including Amazon’s “Rekognition”
  5. Interview with Raw Thought Artist Grumpy Green About Their Life, Love & Art

2018 77

  1. Cindy Cohn & Cory Doctorow & Annalee Newitz Discuss “The End of Trust”
  2. A Conversation with DJ Cain MacWitish – Part One
  3. Mrs. Santa Claus is coming to town
  4. A Conversation with Tha Spyryt – A Raw Thought DJ Performing March 8th at the DNA Lounge
  5. Tripulations 1968 – 1969: Excerpt from Timothy Leary’s Trip Thru Time
  6. The Story of the Famous “Keith Case” That Curtailed President Nixon’s Warrantless Wiretapping: An Excerpt from Cyrus Farivar’s “Habeas Data”
  7. DJ Spooky Looks Deeper Into the Films of Cinema Pioneer Oscar Micheaux
  8. Changes, Postmodernism, Counterculture, Ego
  9. On The Road To Chaos In East Berlin (published MONDO 2000 1991)
  10. The Subsequent State
  11. Happy Labor Day (Imagine)
  12. What’s Eating Jaron Lanier (written about 5 years ago)
  13. Aaron Swartz Day 2018: The Inside Story – Part 2: Danielle Robinson From the Dat Project and Code for Science & Society
  14. Aaron Swartz Day 2018: The Inside Story – Part 1: DJ Spooky At The Creative Commons Launch (2002)
  15. God Bless Russo-America
  16. The Secret Burning with Rachel Haywire
  17. Matteo Borri Explains: What the Underground Lake On Mars Really Tells Us About the Possibility of Life There
  18. The Aaron Swartz Day Police Surveillance Project #ASDPSP – Reports Back: Here’s #WhatWeFound In Sacramento
  19. Morgan Russell High Frontiers/Reality Hackers/MONDO 2000 Writer/Editor Publisher RIP 12/11/1957 — 7/16/2018
  20. Everyone I know is brokenhearted
  21. Urine Luck Mr. Trump
  22. 6pm Tonight at SF MOMA: DJ Spooky’s Soundtrack Premiere to Paul Robeson’s 1925 Silent Film Debut
  23. Ask Matteo Borri: What Do The Methane Patterns On Mars Tell Us About The Possibility of Life There?
  24. Matteo Borri Explains: How The Next NASA Mars Rover Will Use Lasers to Search For Life On Mars
  25. Fear of an Orange Man Planet
  26. Memes Are For Tricksters: The Biology of Disinformation
  27. The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard
  28. you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop!
  29. Come to DJ Spooky’s Phantom Dancehall Record Release Party – In Brooklyn On June 13
  30. How a little “working group” stopped Oakland from becoming a mini-fusion center for the Department of Homeland Security.
  31. Interview with Oakland Privacy’s Tracy Rosenberg On The Aaron Swartz Day Police Surveillance Project
  32. “All medias are propagandic” — Of Bowie, Mishima, Memewar: Jamie Curcio Interviewed
  33. MarsVR: Explore The Surface of Mars Like A Real Human Mars-bound Astronaut
  34. Glenn Branca and Elliott Sharp: “We are the Reality of this Cyberpunk Fantasy” 1991
  35. ADAM PARFREY American’s Greatest Underground Publisher 1957 – 2018
  36. Why Did Some Countercultural Types Vote For Trump?
  37. Ups & Downs With Ecstasy (MDMA, Molly, etc.)
  38. Chelsea Manning, Caroline Sinders, and Kristian Lum: “Technologists, It’s Time to Decide Where You Stand On Ethics”
  39. Relax with the Heteronormative Sounds of Jordan Peterson & the MONDOVanni Strings
  40. Meet Matteo Borri & His Most Recent Inventions
  41. There’s Still A Visionary Edge at the Intersection of Art and Technology: CODAME
  42. Edward Snowden Explains The Direct Connection Between John Perry Barlow’s “Declaration of Cyberspace” & His Historic Surveillance Disclosures
  43. Money for vulns but 0-days ain’t free.
  44. The Difference Between Data, Information & Experience As ‘Splained by J.P. Barlow
  45. A Short Description of Aftermath of a Single Long Strange Trip from the MONDO 2000 story
  46. Mutant/Mutation/Transmutation/The Total Fucking Transmutation of Everything
  47. What Went Unsaid at the J.P. Barlow EFF Memorial/Symposium on Saturday
  48. A Tribute To Cecil Taylor
  49. The Revolution Party Revisited (ReWrites & Wrongs)
  50. Sexual McCarthyism and the Neopuritanical Left: A Conversation with Laura Kipnis & Angela Nagle
  51. YOU Asked For It! Internet Censorship Goes Exponential
  52. A Virtual Life. An Actual Death
  53. Timothy Leary’s 1987 rant against Reaganism and the Drug War
  54. $uptime
  55. Kathy Acker Reading The Body 1991 (MONDO 2000 Issue #4)
  56. Why Chelsea Manning and Heather Dewey-Hagborg Speaking Together Yesterday In Ann Arbor Was A Pretty Big Deal
  57. Smart Drugs & Nutrients in 1991 (MONDO 2000 Flashback Friday)
  58. fragments of A String of Saturdays: The New Southern Romance
  59. Do G-Men Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Flashback Friday MONDO 2000 Issue #3)
  60. John Perry Barlow Through the Lens of Lisa Rein’s Archival Memories
  61. The Annoying Internet Part 1
  62. Morgan Russell Remembering Barlow (w. Lovely Photos)
  63. J.P. Barlow Remembers… US? Interview About MONDO 2000 (Reality Hackers, High Frontiers)
  64. The First Virtual War by J.P. Barlow from MONDO 2000 #5
  65. John Perry Barlow – MONDO 2000 Contributing Editor RIP
  66. Mondoid Memoir The Neopsychedelic Movement
  67. Reality Hackers Soapbox 1989 Information is True Capital
  68. From Anonymous To Pursuance — Barrett Brown in Conversation with Steve Phillips
  69. Zach Leary Remembers Timothy Leary’s Final Years
  70. Pariahs Made Me Do It — Of Dali, Warhol & Leary
  71. Timothy Leary’s Great-ish Escape
  72. No. I’m not on Facebook
  73. Pink Lexical Goop: The Dark Side of Autocorrect
  74. Facecatraz: Becoming the Warden or Facebook as a Penal Colony
  75. Richard Stallman : Last of The True Hackers? (MONDO 2000 flashback 1989)
  76. Excerpt from 3 Essays on Virtual Reality: Overlords, Civilization, and Escape
  77. The modern (or post-modern) memory is an assault victim, if not an amputee.

2017 86

  1. Predictions for the Future
  2. I Politician (The United Matrix of America) 1982
  3. Albert Hofmann – Everybody Has Cosmogonic Potency (1984)
  4. Mama But Weer All In Chapel Perilous Now
  5. Festival 23 — Wonderism, Fake News and the Neo-Discordian Revival
  6. The Ghosts of Christmases Past (Virtual MONDO Schwag)
  7. White Babbits video (Grace Schtick on Vocals)
  8. Video/Interview: Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Drugs — Cliff Pickover (2007)
  9. Making Sense of the Butthole Surfers
  10. High Tech High Life: William Gibson & Timothy Leary in Conversation (1989)
  11. What If A New Technology Forces Everyone to be Honest?
  12. Free The Bear — An Excerpt from a Novel Of California Secession
  13. Robert Anton Wilson Lives! (video) (sometime in 2006)
  14. ONLINE AD FUNGUS SPREADS TO YOUR BRAIN opinion by john shirley
  15. Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson — An Interview with Prop Anon
  16. After the Technotopian Decade, Comes A Visitor. A Time Traveler
  17. The Future Can Be Evenly Distributed … If We Want It To Be
  18. Semi-autonomous software agents: A personal perspective.
  19. (VIDEO) What The Dormouse Said: How The Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2006 Interview)
  20. Time for The Fifth Annual Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon, Saturday in San Francisco
  21. Semi-autonomous agents: What are they, exactly?
  22. Happy Halloween 2017
  23. Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary – The Interview
  24. Kennedy Assassination Documents To Become Public Today
  25. Early Chan Culture, The Raids Of Hal Turner And Their Personal And Societal Implications
  26. We Can Weaponize Fiction, But How Do We Monetize Truth? Excerpt from Narrative Machines.
  27. Timothy Leary’s Trip Thru Time (born on October 22 in 1920)
  28. how sex negativity & authoritarian culture meets harassment culture & makes everything worse
  29. Becoming “Reality Hackers”
  30. The Medium is the Message and the Message is Voyeurism (1994)
  31. How did we let it get so bad? (Everybody is Pwned)
  32. The Cyberpunk Issue — Pull Quotes from MONDO 2000 Issue #1 (1989)
  33. Jamming the Signal: Better Living Through Subliminal Messages
  34. Exocortices: A Definition of a Technology
  35. Pull Quotes from “Kids Do The Darnedest Drugs”: Issue #2 High Frontiers
  36. Mad Scientists Wanted for Research on Irrational Mechanics
  37. Old and busted: Learned helplessness. New hotness: Nihilism as survival trait.
  38. Steal This Singularity Part 3: Bean Counters in Paradise
  39. Writing “Blood and Guts In High School” — Excerpt From “After Kathy Acker”
  40. Mind Parasites & Screaming Memes – Reality Hackers #6 Aditorial
  41. David Bowie’s Strange Louis Vuitton Ad From 2013
  42. A Mouse in the Noodles over Mars
  43. When MONDO 2000 was #1
  44. Bastards of Young
  45. Report: Update on the Spirituality Business in the Kali Yuga
  46. (Excerpt) Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right
  47. The Unbearable Cluelessness of Russian Embassy Reporting
  48. I Hope You Didn’t Dose The Pudding
  49. Steal This Singularity – The Yippies Started The Digital Revolution
  50. Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary (Excerpt)
  51. Quantum Sex & The Death Of Gender
  52. Sex and the Swingers of the Future
  53. Technological Resurrection by Jonathan Jones Reviewed
  54. Is Change Good? An Interview with Former Wired Magazine Publisher Louis Rossetto
  55. There’s Just A Tiny Infection Between Any Of Us And Batshit Crazy
  56. The Invention of Reality Hackers – A “Mutazine” (1988)
  57. Who Made The Nazis… Cry?
  58. Steal This Singularity Part 1 (2012)
  59. Of Watling Street and Communicating with Places — It’s Time To Take The Road Less Travelled… Even If It’s the Street Where You Already Live
  60. R.U. a Cyberpunk? Well? R.U? … Punk
  61. Hurricane Harvey & the Blue Shed of Hope
  62. The Night of the 5-MEO DMT Assassin (From Freaks in The Machine)
  63. The Fab 400: What Did John Higgs See At KLF’s Liverpool event
  64. HYPER-INTERACTIVITY TEARSHEET From “Freaks In The Machine: MONDO 2000 in the Tech Culture” High Frontiers 1988
  65. KLF at the Brit Awards Show 1992 — Machine gunning the audience (and a Dead Sheep)
  66. Some Comments About The Transhumanist Project (2014)
  67. Mathemagician Ralph Abraham: We Need Another Miracle
  68. Punching A Nazi (Video)
  69. It’s KLF Day In Liverpool!
  70. What’s It Like Being God? Pull Quotes from High Frontiers Issue #3
  71. Fat Stream (Short Story)
  72. Some Love For Tina Fey From Charlottesville
  73. The 7B2 in Handel Gothic (It is steampunk)
  74. Operation Mindfuck Was Too Successful
  75. OH THE HORROR! WE MAY ACTUALLY NEED FORBIDDEN MODIFICATION OF THE WEB!
  76. Deeper Into The Magick Grant Morrison Interview Part 2
  77. White Babbits Trevor Boing & Grace Schtick
  78. Magic Works: An Interview with Grant Morrision Part 1
  79. From “Freaks In The Machine: MONDO 2000 in 20th Century Tech Culture”
  80. Alternative Facts
  81. La Petite Mort: The Death Of Sex
  82. William S. Burroughs in High Frontiers 1987 About Mind Technologies
  83. The Next Fifty Years: Why I’m Optimistic Because Everything Will Be Terrible…
  84. Interiorizing The Body, Exteriorizing The Mind
  85. First MONDO 2000 Editorial (1989) Annotated (2017)
  86. William Gibson & Timothy Leary Discuss Neuromancer Game That Never Was (Audio)