Data Trash

Smelling the virtual flowers and counting the road-kill on the digital superhighway are just a couple of things that Kroker/Weinstein explains. Others include: the theory of the virtual class; virtual ideology; the will to virtuality; the political economy of virtual reality; prime time reports; virtual (photographic) culture; and the virtual history file.

Preface: Data Trash	p. 1
The Theory of the Virtual Class: Not a wired culture, but a virtual culture that is wired shut	p. 4
Virtual Ideology: The body wetware on a lonely, ecstatic road trip across the electronic sky	p. 27
The Will to Virtuality: The virtual torture chamber slides in behind visions of a perpetual Club Med vacation or an eternity in Las Vegas	p. 41
The Political Economy of Virtual Reality: What if "Windows" were not a computer application but a form of elevated telematic consciousness?	p. 63
Prime Time Reports: A virtual self with a digital ego that knows only the Internet as its electronic leviathan	p. 94
Virtual (Photographic) Culture: Geek Flesh and the Reclining Eye	p. 111
The Virtual History File: Let the dead bury the living	p. 129
Epilogue: Data Flesh	p. 155
Data Trash Glossary	p. 158
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