ISBN:
9780226817439
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 327 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Turner, Fred, 1961 - From counterculture to cyberculture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Turner, Fred, 1961 - From counterculture to cyberculture
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Brand, Stewart
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Brand, Stewart
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Brand Stewart
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Whole earth catalog (New York, N.Y.)
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Whole earth catalog
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Technology Social aspects
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Subculture History 20th century
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Computer networks Social aspects
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Information technology History 20th century
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Computers and civilization
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Counterculture History 20th century
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Computer networks Social aspects
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Computers and civilization
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Counterculture United States
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History
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20th century
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Information technology History
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20th century
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Subculture California
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San Francisco
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History
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20th century
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Technology Social aspects
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California, Northern
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Informationstechnik
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Geschichte
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Gegenkultur
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Informationsgesellschaft
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Brand, Stewart 1938-
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Informationstechnik
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Geschichte
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Subkultur
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Gegenkultur
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Informationsgesellschaft
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Neue Medien
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USA
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Informationsgesellschaft
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Geschichte 1900-
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Brand, Stewart 1938-
Abstract:
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 different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war establishment in the first place. From Counterculture to Cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation. F
Description / Table of Contents:
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.The shifting politics of the computational metaphor2.Stewart Brand meets the cybernetic counterculture3.The Whole Earth Catalog as information technology4.Taking the whole earth digital5.Virtuality and community on the WELL6.Networking the new economy7.Wired8.The triumph of the network modeNotesBibliographyIndex.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-312) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
