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Finally, all of the pieces are falling together. All of the trippy, I-searched-for-myself-but-only-found-the-”my”-part and get-these-freaking-ants-off-my-arms pieces.
Yet as Fred Turner points out in his revealing new book, “From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism” (University of Chicago Press), there is no way to separate cyberculture from counterculture; indeed, cyberculture grew from its predecessor’s compost. Mr. Turner suggests that Stewart Brand, who created the “Whole Earth Catalog,” was the major node in a network of countercultural speculators, promoters, inventors and entrepreneurs who helped change the world in ways quite different from those they originally envisioned.
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September 26th, 2006 at 7:19 am
The University of Chicago Press website has two excerpts from Fred Turner’s From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. You can read the introduction and an excerpt about the Whole Earth Catalog and the emerging digital culture.