RU Sirius
RU Sirius is a US writer, editor, talk show host, musician, and
cyberculture icon, best known as cofounder and original Editor-In-Chief
of Mondo 2000 Magazine from 1989–1993.
He is currently editor for the new transhumanist magazine,
H+.
RU 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. He has written several hundred articles and essays for
mainstream and subculture publications. He was Editor-In-Chief of Axcess
magazine in 1998, and GettingIt.com from 1999–2000.
RU 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.
He was also chairman and
candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election for The Revolution
Party. The party’s 20-point platform comprised a hybrid of
libertarianism and liberalism.
He 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 coauthored Leary’s last book,
Design For Dying
(1998), and wrote the introduction for the 1998 edition of Leary’s 1968
book
The Politics of Ecstasy.
He 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.
RU authored
True Mutations and
The Revolution: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R. U.
Sirius,
coauthored
Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House,
How to Mutate and Take Over the World,
Mondo 2000: A User’s Guide to the New Edge : Cyberpunk, Virtual
Reality,
Wetware, Designer Aphrodisiacs, Artificial Life, Techno-Erotic
Paganism,
Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook,
Shattered Lives: Portraits From America’s Drug War, and
Design for Dying,
and illustrated
21st Century Revolutionary: R.U. Sirius 1984–1998.
Watch
Interview with RU Sirius and
RU Sirius on Mondo 2000.
Listen to The RU Sirius Radio
Show.
Check out his MondoGlobo network.
