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

General Information

Author/Creator
Turner, Fred.
Language
English.
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Physical Description
x, 327 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Subject
Brand, Stewart.
Whole Earth catalog (Menlo Park, Calif.)
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.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility
Fred Turner.
Title Variation
Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism
Content
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.
ISBN
0226817415
9780226817415

Holdings

Item Type Current Location Collection Call Number Volume Info Shelving Location Public Note
BookOSA Archivum LibraryReference collection303.48/33 TURReference-

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