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:''R. U. Sirius is also the name of the space ship in the comic strip .''
'R. U. Sirius' (born 'Ken Goffman') is an American writer, editor, talk show host, musician, and cyberculture icon best known as co-founder and original Editor-In-Chief of ''Mondo 2000'' from 1989 – 1993. Sirius was also chairman and candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election for The Revolution Party.[1] The party's 20-point platform comprised a hybrid of libertarianism and liberalism.[2] He is currently part of the team at the webzine, 10 Zen Monkeys, and hosts two podcast shows on the MondoGlobo Network. The shows are The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles.
At one time, he was a regular columnist for ''Wired News'' and San Francisco Examiner, and contributing writer for ''Wired'' and ''Artforum International''. He's also written for Rolling Stone, Time, Esquire and other publications. Sirius has written several hundred articles and essays for mainstream and subculture publications. (See ) He was Editor-In-Chief of Axcess magazine in 1998, and GettingIt.com from 1999-2000.
Sirius has been associated with Timothy Leary. He co-authored Leary's last book, Design For Dying and wrote an introduction for a new edition of Leary's The Politics of Ecstasy. He recruited Leary to be a Contributing Editor for Mondo 2000 magazine and has taught an online course in Leary's philosophy for the Maybe Logic Institute.
Sirius appeared in the popular films ''Synthetic Pleasures'' and ''Conceiving Ada''. His mid-90s techno-rock band, Mondo Vanilli recorded an unreleased CD for Trent Reznor's Nothing Records titled IOU Babe. The music was available on the internet for several years but has since disappeared.
Sirius shifted his media focus in 2005, becoming a show host for two ongoing weekly podcasts, The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles. In September 2006 he helped launch the webzine, 10 Zen Monkeys with fellow GettingIt.com alumns Jeff Diehl and Lou Cabron. All these projects are part of the network, MondoGlobo.net.
He has been a speaker at many events, such as the Starwood Festival[3]. He delivered the Keynote address for the Virtual Reality conference, Oslo VR, in 1994.
Sirius has been called "the Wired visionary of post-modernism and psychic pandemonium" in ''Artforum'', "a head on the Mt. Rushmore of cyberculture" in the ''LA Times'' and "a yokel cousin of Beavis and Butt-head" in ''Swedish Daily''.
Mondo 2000 designed a February 8, 1993 "Cyberpunk" cover feature for Time magazine that featured their art director Heide Foley on the cover and a picture of R.U. Sirius inside. According to Cyberia, Douglas Rushkoff's book about early '90s cyberculture, Sirius' girlfriend, Lady Drew, had an abortion while on LSD. Sirius claims that he was a Yippie activist in the early 1970s and lead vocalist in a Rochester, New York-based punk band called Party Dogs from 1979-81.
After U2 sued music pranksters Negativland for trademark violations, R.U. Sirius helped them confront U2's guitarist, The Edge. Sirius hired Negativland members Mark Hosler and Don Joyce to do an interview with The Edge for Mondo 2000 by phone. Negativland revealed who they were about 15 minutes into the interview.
★ ''True Mutations''. (2007) Pollinator Press ISBN 978-0977441013
★ ''Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House''. (2004) Villard Books ISBN 0-375-50758-2
★ ''The Revolution: Quotations From Revolution Party Chairman R. U. Sirius''. (2000) Feral House ISBN 0-922915-62-8
★ ''21st Century Revolutionary: R.U. Sirius 1984-1998''. (1999) Fringecore ISBN 90-76207-51-8
★ ''Design for Dying''. (1998) (with Timothy Leary) HarperCollins ISBN 0-06-092866-2
★ ''How to Mutate & Take Over the World: an Exploded Post-Novel''. (1997) (with St. Jude) Random House ISBN 0-517-19832-0
★ ''Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook''. (1995) (with St. Jude and Bart Nagel) Random House. ISBN 0-67-976230-2
★ ''Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge''. (1992) (editor with Rudy Rucker & Queen Mu) Harperperennial Library ISBN 0-06-096928-8
★ Before ''Mondo 2000'', was ''Reality Hackers'', and ''High Frontiers''.
''List of articles to be completed'' before the Singularity, hopefully.
★ Steal This Millennium. With Stew Albert. Salon.com, October 19, 2000.
★ Feeling Groovy, Forever.... With David Pearce.
★ The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles. 80-odd podcast interviews, and counting. (With co-hosts Sherry Miller, Diana Brown, and producer Jeff Diehl.)
★ ''A Sirius View From the Fringe''. ''Wired News'', January 20, 2001.
★ "Confusion is Next." ''New World Disorder Magazine''. Mid 2000/June, 2002.
★ ''R.U. Sirius On The G-Spot Podcast''. ''Alterati'', April 5, 2007.
★ ''R.U. Sirius Unplugged''. ''Shift'', July 13, 2002.
★ Melanson, Donald ''A Sirius Interview About The Revolution''. ''MindJack''. Ca. 2000.
★ ''VYPH Interview R.U. Sirius!'' Viking Youth Power Hour November 21, 2005.
★
★ R.U. Sirius Radio
★ Recent articles
'R. U. Sirius' (born 'Ken Goffman') is an American writer, editor, talk show host, musician, and cyberculture icon best known as co-founder and original Editor-In-Chief of ''Mondo 2000'' from 1989 – 1993. Sirius was also chairman and candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election for The Revolution Party.[1] The party's 20-point platform comprised a hybrid of libertarianism and liberalism.[2] He is currently part of the team at the webzine, 10 Zen Monkeys, and hosts two podcast shows on the MondoGlobo Network. The shows are The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles.
At one time, he was a regular columnist for ''Wired News'' and San Francisco Examiner, and contributing writer for ''Wired'' and ''Artforum International''. He's also written for Rolling Stone, Time, Esquire and other publications. Sirius has written several hundred articles and essays for mainstream and subculture publications. (See ) He was Editor-In-Chief of Axcess magazine in 1998, and GettingIt.com from 1999-2000.
Sirius has been associated with Timothy Leary. He co-authored Leary's last book, Design For Dying and wrote an introduction for a new edition of Leary's The Politics of Ecstasy. He recruited Leary to be a Contributing Editor for Mondo 2000 magazine and has taught an online course in Leary's philosophy for the Maybe Logic Institute.
Sirius appeared in the popular films ''Synthetic Pleasures'' and ''Conceiving Ada''. His mid-90s techno-rock band, Mondo Vanilli recorded an unreleased CD for Trent Reznor's Nothing Records titled IOU Babe. The music was available on the internet for several years but has since disappeared.
Sirius shifted his media focus in 2005, becoming a show host for two ongoing weekly podcasts, The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles. In September 2006 he helped launch the webzine, 10 Zen Monkeys with fellow GettingIt.com alumns Jeff Diehl and Lou Cabron. All these projects are part of the network, MondoGlobo.net.
He has been a speaker at many events, such as the Starwood Festival[3]. He delivered the Keynote address for the Virtual Reality conference, Oslo VR, in 1994.
Sirius has been called "the Wired visionary of post-modernism and psychic pandemonium" in ''Artforum'', "a head on the Mt. Rushmore of cyberculture" in the ''LA Times'' and "a yokel cousin of Beavis and Butt-head" in ''Swedish Daily''.
| Contents |
| Trivia |
| Bibliography |
| Bibliography |
| Articles |
| Interviews given |
| External links |
Trivia
Mondo 2000 designed a February 8, 1993 "Cyberpunk" cover feature for Time magazine that featured their art director Heide Foley on the cover and a picture of R.U. Sirius inside. According to Cyberia, Douglas Rushkoff's book about early '90s cyberculture, Sirius' girlfriend, Lady Drew, had an abortion while on LSD. Sirius claims that he was a Yippie activist in the early 1970s and lead vocalist in a Rochester, New York-based punk band called Party Dogs from 1979-81.
After U2 sued music pranksters Negativland for trademark violations, R.U. Sirius helped them confront U2's guitarist, The Edge. Sirius hired Negativland members Mark Hosler and Don Joyce to do an interview with The Edge for Mondo 2000 by phone. Negativland revealed who they were about 15 minutes into the interview.
Bibliography
Bibliography
★ ''True Mutations''. (2007) Pollinator Press ISBN 978-0977441013
★ ''Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House''. (2004) Villard Books ISBN 0-375-50758-2
★ ''The Revolution: Quotations From Revolution Party Chairman R. U. Sirius''. (2000) Feral House ISBN 0-922915-62-8
★ ''21st Century Revolutionary: R.U. Sirius 1984-1998''. (1999) Fringecore ISBN 90-76207-51-8
★ ''Design for Dying''. (1998) (with Timothy Leary) HarperCollins ISBN 0-06-092866-2
★ ''How to Mutate & Take Over the World: an Exploded Post-Novel''. (1997) (with St. Jude) Random House ISBN 0-517-19832-0
★ ''Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook''. (1995) (with St. Jude and Bart Nagel) Random House. ISBN 0-67-976230-2
★ ''Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge''. (1992) (editor with Rudy Rucker & Queen Mu) Harperperennial Library ISBN 0-06-096928-8
Articles
★ Before ''Mondo 2000'', was ''Reality Hackers'', and ''High Frontiers''.
''List of articles to be completed'' before the Singularity, hopefully.
★ Steal This Millennium. With Stew Albert. Salon.com, October 19, 2000.
★ Feeling Groovy, Forever.... With David Pearce.
★ The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles. 80-odd podcast interviews, and counting. (With co-hosts Sherry Miller, Diana Brown, and producer Jeff Diehl.)
Interviews given
★ ''A Sirius View From the Fringe''. ''Wired News'', January 20, 2001.
★ "Confusion is Next." ''New World Disorder Magazine''. Mid 2000/June, 2002.
★ ''R.U. Sirius On The G-Spot Podcast''. ''Alterati'', April 5, 2007.
★ ''R.U. Sirius Unplugged''. ''Shift'', July 13, 2002.
★ Melanson, Donald ''A Sirius Interview About The Revolution''. ''MindJack''. Ca. 2000.
★ ''VYPH Interview R.U. Sirius!'' Viking Youth Power Hour November 21, 2005.
External links
★
★ R.U. Sirius Radio
★ Recent articles
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