Erik Davis on Follow for Now
The following blurb appeared on Erik Davis’ blog yesterday (Thanks, Erik!):
“Roy Christopher is the supersharp, humble, and very friendly guy who runs the website frontwheeldrive.com, which has long been one of my favorite spots online to feel the technoculture’s intellectual pulse — which in Christopher’s case is primarily sensed through dialogue. The thirtysomething Christopher has a rich background — skateboards, BMX, zines, hip hop, Communication Theory degree from San Diego State (which is brimming with SF writers, by the way) — and all this (or something else, perhaps an alien implant) has given him an acute zeitgeist radar. The heart of frontwheeldrive is scores and scores of on-target, and generally succinct interviews — usually conducted by Roy, but also by folks like Mark Dery and Paul Miller. Now, after what seemed like eons, Christopher has collected a mess of these resonant chats and encased them in Gutenberg form. The book Follow for Now is like a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so.”
“The interviewees are just the sort of people you hope you might run into at a party when you have had enough dancing and want to get down to postmillennial conundrums: SF writers (Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker), hip-hop masterminds (Dälek, Aesop Rock), posthuman theorists (McKenzie Wark, N. Kathering Hayles), visionary bards (Terence McKenna), media sneaks (Geert Lovink, Eric Paulos). Roy invited me to the party a couple of times as well, and Follow for Now contains both a brief interview with me and an interview I did (sorta) with Philip K. Dick (here’s the piece, if you are dying to see how I managed to interview a dead guy). Though Follow for Now appeared with the dreaded slowness of most books, its breadth, accessibility, and zine-worthy cover should give another kick in the pants to these already viral ideas and voices.”








I just found out that this post was simulcast on DoseNation. Thanks, Scotto.
Congrats, royc. The new book looks awesome! Still waiting for my copy to arrive, but can’t wait to get my hands on it. For the record, I would just like to add the following comment to Erik’s characterization of the editor as “humble”:
Ha!
On the others, I’ll withhold comment. But mainly, I’m so stoked for you, and wish you bogspeed in getting those stacks out of your tiny bedroom and onto the shelves of the general public.
peace, and power to you,
ben
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I was Assistant Editor to Paul D. Miller a.k.a DJ Spooky on his Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, which is available from The MIT Press and fine bookstores all over.
My first book, Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes, is an anthology of interviews with all kinds of minds. Disinformation named it "among the most important books published in 2007," and Erik Davis called it "a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so."
Top Ten for Now
2. Astra The Weirding
3. Antipop Consortium Fluorescent Black
4. El Trio de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Ciencia de los Inutiles
5. Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back
6. Tom Waits Glitter and Doom Live
7. Zu Carboniferous
8. AZ Legendary
9. Ahab The Divinity of Oceans
10. Voivod Infini
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