I haven't read Ecstasy Club yet, but I've been on a bit of a Rushkoff kick lately. I read Coercion (non-fiction) and Exit Strategy (fiction). I'd highly reccomend reading both. There are some overlapping ideas and reading Coercion first will give you a lot of insight into some of the things he explores in Exit Strategy. If you want a taste of Coercion, this recent article Rushkoff wrote for the NY Press might be a good place to start:
http://www.nypress.com/17/7/news&columns/rotation.cfm
Exit Strategy's concept is really cool. It takes place in the near future (2008), but is supposed to have surfaced in the 23rd century. Rushkoff makes a lot of footnotes throughout the book as "Sabina Samuels", an assumed 23rd century annotator. The book was avaliable online for free for a year or two and readers were invited to submit their own footnotes, written in the voice of 23rd century anthropologists. Now the first print edition is out and it includes a hundred or so of these submitted footnotes in addition to Rushkoff's. It plays out really well and makes for a really interesting (and funny) commentary on these crazy times. So yea... big reccomendation for Exit Strategy.
On a sidenote, Douglas Rushkoff plays keyboards in the latest incarnation of Psychic TV. What the fuck!? Did anyone happen to see their semi-recent performance in New York?
-Aaron
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From: wil maurer <battleforitaly@yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, March 7, 2004 3:51 pm
Subject: [idm] douglas rushkoff - ecstasy club (mildly OT)
quoted 26 lines I just started reading this the other day - it's nice to be
> I just started reading this the other day - it's nice to be
> reading something
> that's not assigned for class now that i'm on spring break (and
> too broke to go
> to wmc). anyway, I picked it up because of the Jeff Noon blurb on
> the cover.
> even though it's kind of ravey, it seems to be a pretty good novel.
>
> I was wondering what other people thought about it, if they've
> read it.
>
> -Wil M.
>
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