From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words
was in many ways quite congenial to the insurgent Republicans of the 1990s. Although Newt Gingrich and those around him decried the hedonism of the 1960s counterculture, they shared its widespread affection for empowering technologically enabled elites, for building new businesses, and for rejecting traditional forms of governance. And as they rose
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
by Benjamin Breen · 16 Jan 2024 · 384pp · 118,573 words
followed, he aligned himself with it. One of the only surviving clips from the two-week event that cemented Gregory Bateson’s reputation among the 1960s counterculture captures Emmett Grogan, founder of the anarchist Diggers collective, delivering a passionate speech in praise of violence. It is mid-July 1967. Grogan is wearing
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words
Neumann, and Vannevar Bush.”15 All of these experiences led Brand to become the impresario and techie for one of the seminal events of the 1960s counterculture, the January 1966 Trips Festival at Longshoreman’s Hall in San Francisco. After the joys of the Acid Tests, which had been held weekly throughout
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks · 1 Jan 2000 · 142pp · 18,753 words
both. Marx told us that classes inevitably conflict, but sometimes they just blur. The values of the bourgeois mainstream culture and the values of the 1960s counterculture have merged. That culture war has ended, at least within the educated class. In its place that class has created a third culture, which is
Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
by Thomas Rid · 27 Jun 2016 · 509pp · 132,327 words
annihilation. Brand is best known for founding the famous Whole Earth Catalog, a publication that itself became an emblem and icon of California’s late 1960s counterculture and back-to-the-land movement. One afternoon, probably in March 1966 in the hills of San Francisco, Brand dropped a bit of LSD and
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan · 30 Apr 2018 · 547pp · 148,732 words
, but here it is compounded by a specific desire to distance psilocybin from its tangled roots (or I should say, mycelia) in the worlds of 1960s counterculture, Native American shamanism, and, perhaps, nature itself. For it is there—in nature—that we bump up against the mystery of a little brown mushroom
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
by Christopher Caldwell · 21 Jan 2020 · 450pp · 113,173 words
sexual freedom and other reformers insisted on getting rid of. The Equal Rights Amendment No ideology or belief system existing at the time of the 1960s counterculture would have allowed people to predict which facets of pre-counterculture sexual morality would flourish over the coming decades, and which die. One might have
…
bureaucracy. Over time it would be Johnson’s Great Society, which expanded the welfare state to undreamed-of and undesired levels. In certain lights, the 1960s counterculture looks like a reactionary movement disguised as a progressive one. Pirsig, for instance, may have been anti-war, anti-corporate, drug-friendly, and steeped in
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu · 14 May 2016 · 515pp · 143,055 words
at them and listen, to enjoy their diversion and tolerate a word from their sponsors. In that way the early web was exactly like the 1960s counterculture: it encouraged both a Great Refusal of what had always been handed down from on high, and asked people to spend more time with each
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
by Jonathan Taplin · 17 Apr 2017 · 222pp · 70,132 words
. The earliest networks—like the Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link (WELL), organized by Stewart Brand, the founder of The Whole Earth Catalog—grew directly out of 1960s counterculture. Brand had helped novelist Ken Kesey organize the Acid Tests—epic be-ins where thousands of hippies ingested LSD and danced to the music of
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
by Marc Weingarten · 12 Dec 2006 · 363pp · 123,076 words
, as well as sociologist Paul Goodman, whose 1960 book, Growing Up Absurd, had mapped the incipient rebellion against established values that would culminate in the 1960s counterculture. Quality fiction had remained a constant, with contributions from such luminaries as William Styron, John Cheever, and Robert Penn Warren. But Felker and Hayes wanted
Fodor's California 2014
by Fodor's · 5 Nov 2013 · 1,540pp · 400,759 words
Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality From Camp Meeting to Wall Street
by Jackson Lears
Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger · 19 Oct 2014 · 459pp · 140,010 words
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child
by Morgan G. Ames · 19 Nov 2019 · 426pp · 117,775 words
Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood · 2 Jan 2009
Culture works: the political economy of culture
by Richard Maxwell · 15 Jan 2001 · 268pp · 112,708 words
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
by Jean M. Twenge · 25 Apr 2023 · 541pp · 173,676 words
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
by Sharon Zukin · 1 Dec 2009 · 415pp · 119,277 words
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
Against Everything: Essays
by Mark Greif · 5 Sep 2016 · 319pp · 103,707 words
Death of the Liberal Class
by Chris Hedges · 14 May 2010 · 422pp · 89,770 words
Coastal California Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
by Nathan Schneider · 10 Sep 2018 · 326pp · 91,559 words
Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
by Alex Wright · 6 Jun 2014
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
by David Callahan · 1 Jan 2004 · 452pp · 110,488 words
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
by Meredith Broussard · 19 Apr 2018 · 245pp · 83,272 words
Utopias: A Brief History From Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities
by Howard P. Segal · 20 May 2012 · 299pp · 19,560 words
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
by Bruce Cannon Gibney · 7 Mar 2017 · 526pp · 160,601 words
Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-To-Peer Debates
by John Logie · 29 Dec 2006 · 173pp · 14,313 words
After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
by Juliet Schor, William Attwood-Charles and Mehmet Cansoy · 15 Mar 2020 · 296pp · 83,254 words
Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin · 21 Jun 2023 · 248pp · 73,689 words
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words
Coastal California
by Lonely Planet
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
by Benjamin H. Bratton · 19 Feb 2016 · 903pp · 235,753 words
Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling
by Carlton Reid · 14 Jun 2017 · 309pp · 84,038 words
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight
by David A. Mindell · 3 Apr 2008 · 377pp · 21,687 words
Team Human
by Douglas Rushkoff · 22 Jan 2019 · 196pp · 54,339 words
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari · 9 Sep 2024 · 566pp · 169,013 words
Faster, Higher, Farther: How One of the World's Largest Automakers Committed a Massive and Stunning Fraud
by Jack Ewing · 22 May 2017 · 434pp · 114,583 words
The Googlization of Everything:
by Siva Vaidhyanathan · 1 Jan 2010 · 281pp · 95,852 words
Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
by Judith Stein · 30 Apr 2010 · 497pp · 143,175 words
You Are Not a Gadget
by Jaron Lanier · 12 Jan 2010 · 224pp · 64,156 words
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
by Anthony M. Townsend · 29 Sep 2013 · 464pp · 127,283 words
Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
by Matthew B. Crawford · 8 Jun 2020 · 386pp · 113,709 words
Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
by Paul A. Offit · 1 Jan 2007 · 300pp · 84,762 words
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex
by Rupert Darwall · 2 Oct 2017 · 451pp · 115,720 words
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by Thomas Rid
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones · 20 Apr 2015 · 433pp · 129,636 words
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous
by Gabriella Coleman · 4 Nov 2014 · 457pp · 126,996 words
Flight of the WASP
by Michael Gross · 562pp · 177,195 words
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
by Adam Winkler · 27 Feb 2018 · 581pp · 162,518 words
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
by Michiko Kakutani · 17 Jul 2018 · 137pp · 38,925 words
Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: The Story of a Transformation
by Yossi Klein Halevi · 13 Nov 1995 · 309pp · 92,846 words
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
by David Graeber · 14 May 2018 · 385pp · 123,168 words
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff · 15 Oct 2018 · 568pp · 164,014 words
WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
by Micah L. Sifry · 19 Feb 2011 · 212pp · 49,544 words
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari · 29 Aug 2018 · 389pp · 119,487 words
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
by W. Bernard Carlson · 11 May 2013 · 733pp · 184,118 words
The Life of a Song: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World’s Best-Loved Songs
by David Cheal and Jan Dalley · 20 Sep 2017 · 116pp · 34,937 words
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
by Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing · 6 May 2008 · 484pp · 131,168 words
Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers
by Stephen Graham · 8 Nov 2016 · 519pp · 136,708 words
Janesville: An American Story
by Amy Goldstein · 17 Apr 2017 · 364pp · 108,237 words
The greatest trade ever: the behind-the-scenes story of how John Paulson defied Wall Street and made financial history
by Gregory Zuckerman · 3 Nov 2009 · 342pp · 99,390 words
The Fiume Crisis
by Dominique Kirchner Reill · 1 Dec 2020
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
by Ken Kocienda · 3 Sep 2018 · 255pp · 76,834 words