From Counterculture to Cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism /

In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s-and the dawn of the Internet-computers started to represent a very...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, Fred (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Temas:
Computer networks > Social aspects.
Computers and civilization.
Counterculture > United States > History > 20th century.
Information technology > History > 20th century.
Subculture > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
Technology > Social aspects > California, Northern.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
counterculture, cyberculture, whole earth network, digital age, internet, online, stewart brand, communication, popular imagination, computers, transformation, san francisco bay, united states of america, american culture, usa, well, wired magazine, silicon valley, technology, information technologies, 20th century, subculture, history, historical.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor
  • 2. Stewart Brand Meets the Cybernetic Counterculture
  • 3. The Whole Earth Catalog as Information Technology
  • 4. Taking the Whole Earth Digital
  • 5. Virtuality and Community on the WELL
  • 6. Networking the New Economy
  • 7. Wired
  • 8. The Triumph of the Network Mode
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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