"During the period of his American exile in the 1930s and 1940s, the German author Thomas Mann became one of the most prominent anti-fascists in the United States, and in so doing forever transformed our understanding of what a modern writer is and should be doing"--

Introduction: For the Sake of Survival
1. Luddism
2. Communion
3. Cyberculture
4. Distortion
5. Revolutionary Suicide
6. Liberation Technology
7. Thanatopography
Conclusion: American Carnage and Technologies of Tomorrow
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Permissions
Index