R. U. Sirius

R. U. Sirius (born Ken Goffman) is a US writer, editor, talk show host, musician and cyberculture icon, best known as co-founder and original Editor-In-Chief of "Mondo 2000 Magazine" from 1989–1993. Sirius was also chairman and candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election for The Revolution Party. [ [http://www.politics1.com/indep.htm] ] The party's 20-point platform comprised a hybrid of libertarianism and liberalism. [ [http://revolting.com/archive/old_revolting/platforms.html] ]

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 gutenberg author| id=R.+U.+Sirius | name=R. U. Sirius.) He was Editor-In-Chief of "Axcess magazine" in 1998, and GettingIt.com from 1999-2000.

Activities

1970s-80s

Sirius was a teenage Yippie activist in the early 1970s. He was the lead singer for Rochester, New York-based punk band Party Dogs from 1979-81.

1990s

Sirius recruited Timothy Leary to be a Contributing Editor for "Mondo 2000" and has taught an online course in Leary's philosophy for the Maybe Logic Academy. He co-authored Leary's last book, "Design For Dying" (1998), and wrote the introduction for a 1998 edition of Leary's 1968 book "The Politics of Ecstasy".

Sirius appeared in the films "Synthetic Pleasures" (1995) and "Conceiving Ada" (1997). His mid-90s techno-rock band Mondo Vanilli recorded an unreleased CD titled "IOU Babe" for Trent Reznor's Nothing Records. The music was available on the internet for several years but has since disappeared.

Sirius has been a speaker at many events, such as the Starwood Festival [http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/FIST2003-1/2002_Devivals/X0008_Back_from_Starwood_X] . He delivered the Keynote address for the Virtual Reality conference, Oslo VR, in 1994.

2000s

Sirius shifted his media focus in 2005, becoming a show host for two ongoing weekly podcasts, [http://rusiriusradio.com The RU Sirius Show] and [http://mondoglobo.net/neofiles NeoFiles] . Both went on unannounced hiatus in August 2007. In September 2006 he helped launch the webzine "10 Zen Monkeys" with fellow GettingIt.com alumni Jeff Diehl and Lou Cabron. All these projects are part of a media network MondoGlobo. As of March 2008, its web site mainly offered new material on three new media-political initiatives, "QuestionAuthority", "The Open Source Party" and "Open Wire".

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 1994 book about early '90s cyberculture, Sirius' girlfriend, Lady Drew, once had an abortion while on LSD.

After U2 sued sound collage artists and media 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.

References

Bibliography

Books

* "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.
* [http://dir.salon.com/people/feature/2000/10/19/albert/index.html Steal This Millennium] . With Stew Albert. Salon.com, October 19, 2000.
* [http://www.life-enhancement.com/NeoFiles/default.asp?id=17 Feeling Groovy, Forever...] . With David Pearce.
* [http://rusiriusradio.com/ The RU Sirius Show] and [http://mondoglobo.net/neofiles/ NeoFiles] . 80-odd podcast interviews, and counting. (With co-hosts including Sherry Miller, Diana Brown, Steve Robles and producer Jeff Diehl.)

Interviews given

* [http://www.mindjack.com/interviews/sirius.html "A Sirius Interview About The Revolution"] . "MindJack". C. 2000.
* [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41096,00.html "A Sirius View From the Fringe"] . "Wired News", January 20, 2001.
* [http://www.jasonlubyk.com/new-world-disorder/confusion-is-next-an-interview-with-ru-sirius "Confusion is Next." "New World Disorder Magazine"] . Mid 2000/June, 2002.
* [http://www.technoccult.com/archives/2002/07/13/ru-sirius-unplugged/ "R.U. Sirius Unplugged"] . "Shift", July 13, 2002.
* [http://www.thefeedlot.org/vikingyouth/show_show.php?show=39&x=13&y=21 "VYPH Interview R.U. Sirius!"] Viking Youth Power Hour November 21, 2005.
* [http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=43 "R.U. Sirius On The G-Spot Podcast"] . "Alterati", April 5, 2007.
* [http://www.realitysandwich.com/future_mutations_interview_r_u_sirius Future Mutations] : An Interview with RU Sirius on "Reality Sandwich". February 2008.

External links

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* [http://rusiriusradio.com/ R.U. Sirius Radio]
* [http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/author/ru-sirius/ Recent articles]