R.U. Sirius: Question the Authority of Your Brain
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Posted on: May 7, 2011 / Last Modified: December 5, 2021
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Today my guest on Singularity 1 on 1 is digital culture and cyberpunk icon R.U. Sirius. (As always you can listen to or download the audio file above or scroll down and watch the video interview in full.)
During our conversation, we discuss issues such as R.U.’s early life and Yippie years; his multiple identities and personal motivation; his views on cyberpunk, counter-culture, psychedelic drugs, transhumanism, and the technological singularity; the importance of questioning everything, and especially The Authority of Your Brain.
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Who is R.U. Sirius?
R.U. Sirius (born Ken Goffman) is a writer, editor, and digital culture iconoclast. He was Editor-in-chief of Mondo 2000, the popular and influential cyberpunk magazine of the early 1990s. More recently, he was Editor-in-chief of the transhumanist magazine H+. In addition, R.U. Sirius is the author or co-author of numerous books including A User’s Guide to the New Edge, True Mutations
, Counterculture Through the Ages
, and Design for Dying
with Dr. Timothy Leary. Sirius has written for Wired, Time magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Boing Boing among many other periodicals. He’s been a musician, audio podcast host, lecturer and minor irritant. He is soon launching a new website tentatively titled Accelerator and he’s writing most of an open-source history of Mondo 2000 magazine.
, Counterculture Through the Ages, and Design for Dying with Dr. Timothy Leary. Sirius has written for Wired, Time magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Boing Boing among many other periodicals. He’s been a musician, audio podcast host, lecturer and minor irritant. He is soon launching a new website tentatively titled Accelerator and he’s writing most of an open-source history of Mondo 2000 magazine.
