Screen Circuits: Fear & Loathing in the Sprawl (circa. 1995) in M/C Journal, The Nineties, Breen, S. & Thompson, DJ. (eds) Volume 21, No. 5 (2018)

The 1990s was more of a feeling than a knowing. There was certainly change afoot and the clock was ticking on a violent century of accelerationism and shrinking horizons. Meanwhile, at the movies a seemingly grave warning was being issued as to what all of this might mean by interrogating a perceived social anxiety around a rapidly evolving information economy, whispers of a virtual reality and the growing hysteria around Y2K.