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Stewart Brand

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Three Maintenance Philosophies Fought for Control of the Auto Industry

At the very beginning of the auto industry, no less than three radically different design-for-maintenance philosophies fought it out.

by Stewart Brand via Books In Progress on June 29, 2023

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Stewart Brand’s Dubious Futurism

What did the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog stand for?

by Malcolm Harris via The Nation on June 13, 2022

On Floating Upstream

Markoff’s biography of Stewart Brand notes that Brand’s ability to recognize and cleave to power explains a great deal of his career.

by W. Patrick McCray via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 22, 2022

Google Before the Invention of Google

What started the Information Age?

by John Markoff via Los Angeles Times on March 28, 2018

Cartoon of Buckminster Fuller with spirals in his glasses and hands out as if hypnotizing the reader.

Space-Age Magus

From beginning to end, experts saw through Buckminster Fuller’s ideas and theories. Why did so many people come under his spell?

by James Gleick via New York Review of Books on November 3, 2022

Douglas Engelbart wearing an earpiece, sitting at a computer, in 1968.

The Future, Revisited: “The Mother of All Demos” at 50

How the ’60s counterculture gave birth to personal computers and the vast tech industry that builds and sells them.

by Andy Horowitz via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 8, 2018

Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days in Palo Alto

Mark Zuckerberg and his buddies built a corporate proto-culture that continues to influence the company today.

by Adam Fisher via Wired on July 10, 2018

The Tools of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley’s sixty-year love affair with the word “tool.”

by Moira Weigel via The New Yorker on April 11, 2018

Drawing depicting Buckminster Fuller in front of a dome

Buckminster Fuller’s Greatest Invention

His vision of a tech-optimized future inspired a generation. But his true talent was for burnishing his own image.

by Rebecca Onion via The New Republic on August 19, 2022

Survival Piece I: Hog Pasture (1970-71) by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, for the exhibition ‘Earth, Air, Fire and Water’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Art Lessons From the 1970s For Survival In An Ecologically Blighted World

The Harrisons’ eco-art told stories about the apocalypse, pointing to a future where we’d all have to be survival artists

by W. Patrick McCray via Aeon on October 29, 2020

Organic Farming's Political History

Despite its countercultural associations today, organic farming was entangled with fascist and quasi-fascist politics at its origins.

by Michelle Niemann via Edge Effects on January 23, 2020

An audience listens to musicians playing outdoors by a Summer of Love banner.

Suddenly That Summer

LSD, ecstasy, and a blast of utopianism: How 1967’s “Summer of Love” all began.

by Sheila Weller via The Hive on June 14, 2012

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