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Chairman of THE REVOLUTION, a new political party for people who feel excluded by mainstream politics.
Freelance writer, editor, speaker and performer
Titular Editor-In-Chief: Axcess magazine. Axcess is a Berkeley, California based, GenX oriented magazine with a circulation of 20,000. Sirius was recently hired to bring quality writing into the publication.
Publisher/Editor of REVOLTING! www.revolting.com. "Radical Tabloid" currently being converted into a site for THE REVOLUTION
Guest Editor and Regular Columnist: 21%C magazine. Recently guest edited a special edition of the Australian magazine 21%C. Regular columnist: DisInformation (www.disinfo.com)
Co-Author: Design For Dying, HarperEdge. by Timothy Leary and R.U. Sirius
Author of 21st Century Revolutionary, a collection of his writings and interviews to be published by Fringecore Publishing in Belgium, Winter 1998
Correspondent: Wired Contributing Editor: MONDO 2000
GENERAL
R.U. Sirius is best known as co-founder and original Editor-In-Chief of Mondo 2000 where he served from 1989 - 1993. Considered the predecessor to Wired, Mondo 2000 was zine culture's big success story for the early 1990's, ultimately inspiring a special "cyberpunk" edition of Time magazine. Sirius returned there in 1996 to guest edit edition #16.
BOOKS:
How To Mutate & Take Over the World: an Exploded Post-Novel by R.U. Sirius and St. Jude (Ballantine Books, 1996)
The Day You Link to a Global Brain (Thompson Publishing Japan, 1996)
Cyberpunk Handbook: the Real Cyberpunk Fakebook (Random House, 1995) by R.U. Sirius and St. Jude
MONDO 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge (HarperCollins, 1992), by R.U. Sirius and Rudy Rucker.
He contributed to the following collections:
The GenX Reader edited by Douglas Rushkoff (Ballantine Books, 1994)
The Happy Mutant Handbook edited by Mark Frauenfelder (Riverhead Books, 1995)
Digital Delirium edited by Arthur and Marylouise Kroker (St. Martin's Books, 1996)
Clicking In: Hot Links to Digital Culture edited by Lynn Herschman Leeson (Bay Press, 1996)
MAGAZINES:
Sirius has written articles for publications ranging from Time and Esquire to bOING bOING and Ben Is Dead. He has been a regular columnist for Wired News, ARTFORUM International, Wave, Esquire Japan, 21.C, and Digital Boy.
LECTURES & PERFORMANCE
Sirius has delivered over 100 lectures nationally and internationally on subjects ranging from digital youth culture to pop culture trends. He delivered the keynote lecture at the annual Virtual Reality conference in Norway in 1995 and addressed the influential SXSW multimedia conference in Austin, Texas in 1996 on the subject of "The Web Generation." He occasionally guest teaches Sharon Grace's class on Media Theory at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Sirius frequently hosts events and panel discussions. His most recent event was a memorial service for famed avant-garde literary figure Kathy Acker.
He has appeared on many talk radio and television programs including NBC Night Focus, Donahue, and The Ron Reagan Show.
Go to www.wired.com and do a search for R.U. Sirius for this year's pieces for Wired News