Title From counterculture to cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism / Fred Turner

Published Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, [2006] ©2006

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Description x, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 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 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 291-312 Subject Brand, Stewart. SUBJECT Whole earth catalog Subject Computers and civilization. Information technology -- History -- 20th century. Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Computer networks -- Social aspects. Subculture -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century. Technology -- Social aspects -- California, Northern. LC no. 2005034149 ISBN 9780226817415 hardback 0226817415 hardback

Other Titles Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism

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