Fred Turner - Keynote: From Counter-culture to Cyberculture

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The Whole Earth - California as Dialectic Image
From Counterculture to Cyberculture

Keynote by Fred Turner (21.6.2013)

Fred Turner is a professor of communication at Stanford University, the director of Stanford's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and the author of several books.


From eco-psychedelia to Internet neoliberalism: The conference THE WHOLE EARTH. California and the Disappearance of the Outside revolved around questions of the legacy of the California counterculture. How did some of its concepts become global principles of new capitalistic "frontiers"? Roundtable discussions explored the historical sources of, and connections between, discursive and political issues such as the ecological movement, cybernetics, anti-conformist cultures, new artistic practices that dissolve boundaries, and the transformations in these areas right up to the globalist network capitalism of the 1990s. Thus, the conference investigated the background conditions of the discourses that today, in the framework of the Anthropocene, are being negotiated, updated, or - in some cases - forgotten.

In the framework of The Anthropocene Project 2013 - 2014
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin