R. U. Sirius

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R. U. Sirius (born Ken Goffman) is an American writer, musician, and cyberculture icon best known as co-founder and original Editor-In-Chief of Mondo 2000. Sirius was also chairman and candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election for The Revolution Party.[1] The party's 20-point platform comprised a hybrid of libertarianism, environmentalism and social liberalism.[2]

At one time, he was a regular columnist for Wired News, 21C, and EYE-COM and contributing writer for Wired, Artforum International and Esquire. Sirius has written several hundred articles and essays for mainstream and subculture publications, and was Editor-In-Chief of GettingIt.com from 1999-2000.

Sirius appeared in the popular film Synthetic Pleasures. His rock band, MV Inc. (The Artists Formerly Known As Mondo Vanilli), performs web events. Its "album" IOU Babe is available only on the World Wide Web.

Sirius shifted his media focus in 2005, becoming a show host for two ongoing weekly podcasts, The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles. In September 2006 he helped launch the webzine, 10 Zen Monkeys with fellow GettingIt.com alumns Jeff Diehl and Lou Cabron. All these projects are part of the network, MondoGlobo.net.

He has been a speaker at many events, such as the Starwood Festival.

Sirius has been called "the Wired visionary of post-modernism and psychic pandemonium" in Artforum, "a head on the Mt. Rushmore of cyberculture" in the LA Times and "a yokel cousin of Beavis and Butt-head" in Swedish Daily.

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[edit] Books

Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House
The Revolution: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R. U. Sirius. Feral House, 2000. [ISBN 0-922915-62-8]
21st Century Revolutionary: R.U. Sirius 1984-1998. Fringecore, 1999. [ISBN 90-76207-51-8]
(with Timothy Leary) Design for Dying. HarperCollins, 1998. [ISBN 0-06-092866-2]
How to Mutate & Take Over World: an Exploded Post-Novel. Random House, 1997. [ISBN 0-517-19832-0]
(editor with Rudy Rucker & Queen Mu) Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge. Harperperennial Library, 1992. [ISBN 0-06-096928-8]

[edit] Articles

Before Mondo 2000, was Reality Hackers, and High Frontiers.

List of articles to be completed before the Singularity, hopefully.

Steal This Millennium. With Stew Albert. Salon.com, October 19, 2000.
Feeling Groovy, Forever.... With David Pearce.
The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles. 80-odd podcast interviews, and counting. (With co-hosts Sherry Miller, Diana Brown, and producer Jeff Diehl.)