Mondo 2000, Humanity+ & Cyberculture | R. U. Sirius

He launched the "neopsychedelic movement", hung out with Timothy Leary, and helped define both cyberculture and the modern transhumanist movements.

Ken Goffman (R. U. Sirius) is a counter-culture icon also known as R U Sirius - best known as the founder of Mondo 2000, a popular digital culture magazine in the 90's that helped shape nascent internet culture.

With Mondo, he covered topics like nanotech, biotech, life-extension, body-modification, virtual-reality, mind-uploading, and cybers*x. These were unheard of in the early 90’s - and after the era was over, he returned with a focused, grown-up take on the concepts in Humanity+.

Ken has written for international periodicals including Esquire, LA Weekly, Wired, Disinformation, and Salon, and has been a columnist for Wired News, 21C, and San Francisco Examiner. He's authored a number of popular books, plays in the band Mondo Vanilli, and founded Humanity+ Magazine.

Goffman's association with countercultural movements goes back to the 1960s and his association with Timothy Leary, the legendary proponent of hallucinogenic drug use. As time passed, Goffman's interests turned to new technology and its implications for the counterculture, as well as alternative politics.

In 2000, he ran for president as a candidate of the Revolution Party. His books published under his R. U. Sirius pseudonym include How to Mutate and Take over the World, Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook, and Counterculture through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House.

Books By R. U. Sirius on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/R.-U.-Sirius/author/B001HD1MGU

Writings Under The Pseudonym R. U. SIRIUS
(Editor, with Rudy Rucker and Queen Mu) Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge, HarperPerennial (New York, NY), 1992.

Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook, Random House (New York, NY), 1995.

How to Mutate and Take over the World, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 1996.

(With Timothy Leary) Design for Dying, HarperEdge (New York, NY), 1997.

Twenty-first Century Revolutionary: R. U. Sirius 1984–1998, Fringecore, 1999.

The Revolution: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R. U. Sirius, Feral House, 2000.

(With Dan Joy) Counterculture through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, Villard (New York, NY), 2004.

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