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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Turner, Fred. From counterculture to cyberculture. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006 (OCoLC)1085906556 |
Named Person: | Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Fred Turner |
ISBN: | 0226817415 9780226817415 9780226817422 0226817423 |
OCLC Number: | 62533774 |
Description: | x, 327 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The shifting politics of the computational metaphor -- Stewart Brand meets the cybernetic counterculture -- The Whole Earth Catalog as information technology -- Taking the whole earth digital -- Virtuality and community on the WELL -- Networking the new economy -- Wired -- The triumph of the network mode. |
Other Titles: | Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism |
Responsibility: | Fred Turner. |
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"[Turner] postulates that Brand was an idealistic (albeit Barnumesque) leader of a merry band of cybernetic pranksters who framed the concept of computers and the Internet with a seemingly nonintuitive twist: These one-time engines of government and big business had transmogrified into a social force associated with egalitarianism, personal empowerment, and the nurturing cocoon of community." - Steven Levy, Bookforum "A revealing new book.... [Turner] is rigorous in his argument... and impressive in his range." - Edward Rothstein, New York Times "Turner's fascinating From Counterculture to Cyberculture... focuses on a key player whose role was making the counterculture-cyberculture connection: Stewart Brand.... There are a myriad of fascinating little historical details that [Turner] dug up that will surprise and enlighten even the key players in the drama." - Henry Lieberman, Science" Read more...


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