The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity
by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt · 18 Oct 2000 · 353pp · 355 words
and adaptability of average Americans, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe (New York: Bantam Books, 1968). Captures the essence of the northern California ideology of extreme openness and creative exploration by telling the story of the countercultural heyday leading up to 1968. That somewhat moderated mentality partly accounts for
Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet
by David Moon, Patrick Ruffini, David Segal, Aaron Swartz, Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Zoe Lofgren, Jamie Laurie, Ron Paul, Mike Masnick, Kim Dotcom, Tiffiniy Cheng, Alexis Ohanian, Nicole Powers and Josh Levy · 30 Apr 2013 · 452pp · 134,502 words
the Old Economy, and whose agitation unduly protects incumbents and generates economic inefficiencies. This is, in fact, much of the essence of the so-called California Ideology, an influential strain of Cyber Utopianism. (For a detailed historiography of these tendencies, watch any—ideally all—of Adam Curtis’s wonderful films, especially All
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Social Security and Medicare look likely to fall beneath lawmakers’ axes. Even were we all, indeed, the rational, omniscient, self-interested atoms posited by the California Ideology, it’s clear that many economic problems would best be solved through collective action. Two illustrations that I hope might appeal to my data-driven
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/PIPA opponents—and his and other Republicans’ efforts were beginning to pay off: their pitch was resonating with adherents to the anarcho-capitalist, network utopian, “California” ideology that represents a substantial strain of belief in tech-centric communities. Political donations from tech interests were going to Republicans at a higher rate than
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
by Benjamin H. Bratton · 19 Feb 2016 · 903pp · 235,753 words
motivates euphoric convictions in the instantaneous self-realization of networked individuals, a particularly Californian enthusiasm spanning from the ingenious to the idiotic. (The so-called California Ideology is not what I am referring to here. That term was always a simplistic New Left chestnut that crudely lumped Survival Research Laboratories and Page
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Press, 2010). 19. Coming to mind, perhaps unfairly, are the declarations of confusion and outrage continuously forthcoming from Jürgen Habermas. 20. For the original 1995 “California Ideology” essay by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, see http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/pessimism/califIdeo_I.html. For a characteristically misinformed contemporary take on
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-based “industrial performing arts” collective famous for its pyrotechnic displays of machinic mayhem and which might typify a DIY engineering ethic often associated with the “California Ideology,” whereas Page Mill Road in Palo Alto (and Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park) have housed important clusters of important Silicon Valley venture capital firms
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, 454n75 Brin, Sergey, 139 Broad Museum, 320 bunker. See camp/enclave bureaucracy, 7, 342 Burning Man, 315 Burroughs, William S., 157 Bush, George W., 322 California Ideology, 57, 385n20 Calit2 (California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology), 267 CalTrans building, 320, 322–323 Calvino, Italo, 147 Cameron, David, 399n37 camp/enclave. See
Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
by Brett Scott · 4 Jul 2022 · 308pp · 85,850 words
Internet generated visions of a future meta-state, meta-society, meta-market called cyberspace. This set the scene for optimistic ideologies like the so-called ‘California Ideology’, the free-market techno-utopianism associated with Silicon Valley. This is a spirit I referred to in the last chapter, which comes bundled with visions
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British Bankers Association, 83 Brixton Market, London, 177 Bulgaria, 13 Bundesbank, 35, 47 bureaucracy, 179 Burning Man, 101 busking, 90–91 Buterin, Vitalik, 221, 223 California Ideology, 180 Camberwell, London, 128 Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime, 111 Cambridge University, 97 Canada, 35 Canary Wharf, London, 17–18, 20, 41, 62, 211 cannabis
The New Class Conflict
by Joel Kotkin · 31 Aug 2014 · 362pp · 83,464 words
the Galbraithian model. These new players were animated not by conventional business thinking but by something defined by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron as “the California ideology,” a unique amalgam of free market conservatism, social liberalism, and technological utopianism.42 This synthesis differed from the Galbraithian ideal in terms of corporate culture
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
by Anna Wiener · 14 Jan 2020 · 237pp · 74,109 words
kettlebell swings using a woman as a weight, while a dog licked itself on the couch. * * * I searched for answers, excuses, context, conclusions: Define: technocracy. California ideology. Jeffersonian democracy. Electronic agora. Ebola. State slogans. New dark mole. Tanuki. Feminist porn. Feminist porn not annoying. What is canned ham? How old too old
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words
also marked a fundamental break with his youthful libertarian, do-it-yourself philosophy. It was his earlier perspective that had been called out as the “California Ideology” in 1995 by two British academics in a critique of what they called “dotcom neoliberalism”—a blending of hippie libertarianism and conservative economics. That view