Lipika Bansal, Paul Keller, Geert Lovink (eds.): In the Shade of the Commons. Towards a Culture of Open Networks (2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · commons, networks, open source
“Published as a part of the project ‘Towards a Culture of Open Networks’ of which the partners are Sarai in Delhi (India), t/0 Netbase in Vienna (Austria) and Waag Society in Amsterdam.
The book is divided into three main sections. The first is a general part with declarations made by the project partners.
In the second, one can find an overview of the event World Information City Bangalore, that took place November 2005. This part also contains a photographic review in colour.
The last part of the book, edited by Geert Lovink is a theoretical approach of the subject of ‘open networks’, by many authors coming from Asia, Europe and North America.”
Publisher Waag Society, Amsterdam, 2006
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
ISBN 9080645230, 9789080645233
PDF (updated on 2018-6-17)
Comment (0)Stuart Mealing (ed.): Computers and Art (1997-)
Filed under book | Tags: · artificial intelligence, chaos theory, computer art, computer graphics, electronic art, media art, quantum theory, science, virtual reality
“Computers & Art gathers together contributions from a broad, international spectrum of experts concerned with the computer as a tool for artists.
The approaches vary, with contributors looking at the historical, philosophical and practical implications of the use of computer technology in art practice. The variety of their approaches is matched by the diversity of backgrounds of the contributors who are artists, critics, educators, philosophers and researchers. Following the success of the first edition, this revised version includes three new chapters.”
Publisher Intellect Books, Exeter, 1997
ISBN 058520246X, 9780585202464
188 pages
Second edition, 2002
ISBN 1841500623, 9781841500621
159 pages
PDF (80 MB, added on 2023-7-8)
PDF (2nd ed., updated on 2012-9-17)
Theodore Roszak: The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition (1969)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, counterculture, gestalt theory, hippies, new left, social movements, sociology, technocracy, technological society, technology, youth
When it was published, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels – and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of what he calls the technocracy – the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. He traces the intellectual underpinnings of the two groups in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Paul Goodman. Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter Culture in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, “If you want to know what is happening among your intelligent and mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. The generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society – all these matters are here discussed, with sympathy and constructive criticism, by a most articulate, wise, and humane historian.”
Publisher Anchor Books, Doubleday, New York, 1969
303 pages
The Making of a Counter Culture (English)
El nacimiento de una contracultura (Spanish, trans. Angel Abad, 1970/1981, added on 2013-7-2)