Hippie modernism: the struggle for utopia

Contents

Essays. The barricade and the dance floor : aesthetic radicalism and the counterculture / Andrew Blauvelt ; Atmospheres of institutional critique : Haus-Rucker-Co's pneumatic temporality / Esther Choi ; Agency and urgency : the medium and its message / Lorraine Wild and David Karwan ; From east to west and back again : utopianism in Italian radical design / Catharine Rossi ; Buckminster Fuller's reindeer abattoir and other designs for the real world / Alison J. Clarke ; It's not easy being "free" / Craig J. Peariso ; Counterculture terroir : California's hippie enterprise zone / Greg Castillo ; Networks and apparatuses, circa 1971 : or, Hippies meet computers / Felicity D. Scott ; Mandalas or raised fists? : hippie holism, panther totality, and another modernism / Simon Sadler ; How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design / Hugh Dubberly and Paul Pangaro ; Radical bodies / Ross K. Elfline -- Works. Section I : turn on; Section II : tune in; Section III : drop out; Advertisements for a counter culture -- Interviews. Enter the matrix : an interview with Ken Isaacs / Susan Snodgrass ; Toward a stroboscopic history : an Interview with Gerd Stern of USCO / Tina Rivers Ryan ; Domes, droppers, and the ultimate painting : an interview with Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit / Adam Gildar ; On covers, connections, and criticality : an interview with Günter Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co / Esther Choi ; Stirring the intermix : an interview with Tony Martin / Liz Glass ; Unspeakable signs : an interview with Woodson ("Woody") Rainy and Ron Williams of ONYX / Esther Choi ; Blueprint for counter education : an interview with Maurice Stein, Larry Miller, and Marshall Henrichs / Jeffrey T. Schnapp ; "One, two: a hundred, a thousand global tools" : an interview with Franco Raggi / Andrew Blauvelt.