From “The Californian Ideology” by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron who ask the question “who would have suspected that as technology and freedom were worshipped more and more, it would become less and less possible to say anything sensible about the society in which they were applied?”: The Californian Ideology derives its popularity from the [...]
I am continuing to enjoy Douglas Rushkoff’s Life, Inc. Adding to my enjoyment is its parallelism with Fred Turner’s From Counterculture to Cyberculture from which I have quoted before. By the 1960s, the German philosopher Herbert Marcuse had revived much of the spirit of [Wilhelm] Reich—this time for an audience already dissatisfied with the spiritual [...]
“We’re placing so many demands on bees we’re forgetting that they’re a living organism and that they have a seasonal life cycle,” Marla Spivak, a honeybee entomologist at the University of Minnesota, told The Chronicle. “We’re wanting them to function as a machine.… We’re expecting them to get off the truck and be fine.” From a [...]
.!. I was having a hard time explaining exactly what Fred Turner means by the conclusion of his book, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, I wrote about earlier. It really seems difficult to explain things without using informationalist rhetoric. This makes me think of the About Wealth Bondage page: Wealth Bondage is pervasive, the horizon within [...]
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 [...]
According to Fred Turner in From Counterculture to Cyberculture legitimacy exchange is… …a term that refers to the process by which experts in one area draw on the authority of experts in another area to justify their activities. and it follows interestingly with As Bowker explains, “An isolated scientific worker making an outlandish claim could [...]
