Filed under “book”

Perspectives on Building Power

Flitting around on Amazon.com, I came across this review of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: As a VISTA “organizer” in Columbus, Ohio(1969–197):CMACAO)I heard the name of Alinsky quoted like biblical scripture. I read excerpts from his writing and suffered through several seminars led by his disciples from Chicago. As I explained to one(garbed in a [...]

Close to the Machine

HouseSitter movies Fred Turner’s From Counterculture to Cyberculture has an amazingly pointed criticism of modern technocracy (my word) following what is an amazing outline of both Countercultural/Communal philosophy and modern cyberculture. One book mentioned in this conclusion is Ellen Ullman’s Close to the Machine: (page 258, paragraph breaks and emphasis mine) [Ullman’s life is] flexible [...]