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A Conversation with Fred Turner
Knowledge Cultures 3(5), 2015, pp. 165–182 ISSN (printed): 2327-5731 • e-ISSN 2375-6527 FROM THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER TO THE ANTHROPOCENE: A CONVERSATION WITH FRED TURNER FRED TURNER [email protected] Stanford University PETAR JANDRIĆ [email protected] Zagreb University of Applied Sciences ABSTRACT. This conversation tracks and critiques the human journey from the electronic frontier to the Anthropocene through the lens of the history of digital media. The first part of the conversation reveals complex trajectories between countercultures of the 1960s and their predecessors in the 1950s and 1940s. It links information technologies with historical struggles against totalitarianism, and inquires their contemporary potentials for creating a more tolerant society. The second part of the conversation analyses the main differences between the New Communalists and the New Left of the “Psychedelic Sixties.” Using the example of the Burning Man festival, it outlines trajectories of these movements into present and future of our consumerist society. The conversation explores the complex relationships between counterculture, cyberculture, and capitalism, and asks whether the age of informa- tion needs its own religion. Looking at mechanisms in which traditional inequalities have been reproduced in the communes of the 1960s, it touches upon contemporary Silicon Valley’s “soft discrimination.” The third part of the conversation explores contemporary transformations of various occupations. Looking at journalism, it shows that consequences of its transformation from watchdog of democracy into a tool of global neoliberalism are yet unclear, and seeks one possible solution in “computational journalism.” It also explores how the arts have often legitimated ideologies peddled by information technologies. -
SCMS 2012 INT FP-No Rooms.Indd
SCMS 2012 Conference Program Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers March 21–25, 2012 Schedule of Events at a Glance Wed, March 21 10:00 – 11:45am Session A 12:15 – 2:00pm Session K 12:00noon – 1:45pm Session B 12:15 – 2:00pm Special Event— New England Archive 2:00 – 3:45pm Session C Showcase—Northeast 4:00 – 5:45pm Session D Historic Film Thurs, March 22 9:00 – 10:45am Session E 2:15 – 4:00pm Orientation for New Members 11:00am – 12:45pm Orientation for New Members 2:15 – 4:00pm Session L 11:00am – 12:45pm Session F 2:15 – 4:00pm Special Event— New England Archive 11:00am – 12:45pm Special Event— Showcase—The Harvard New England Archive Film Archive Showcase—The National Center for 4:15 – 5:30pm Awards Ceremony Jewish Film 5:30 – 7:30pm Reception 1:00 – 2:45pm Session G 8:15pm Special Event— 1:00 – 2:45pm Special Event— Women Make Movies New England Archive 40th Anniversary Showcase—WGBH Sat, March 24 9:00 – 10:45am Session M Media Library and Archives 11:00am – 12:45pm Session N 3:00 – 4:45pm Session H 1:00 – 2:45pm Session O 5:00 – 6:45pm Session I 3:00 – 4:45pm Session P 7:00pm Reception Special Event— 5:00 – 6:45pm Session Q 8:00pm Screening An Evening with 8:00pm Special Event— Experimental Screening of The Last Filmmaker Ernie Gehr Command with Alloy Fri, March 23 9:00 – 10:45am Session J Orchestra 11:00am – 12:00noon Members’ Business Sun, March 25 9:00 – 10:45am Session R Meeting 11:00am – 12:45pm Session S 10 WEDNESDAY MARCH 21, 2012 SESSION A 10:00 – 11:45am Cyborgs, Avatars, A1 Political Cinema from the A2 Immigrant Terminators -
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
From Counterculture to Cyberculture From Counterculture to Cyberculture Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism Fred Turner The University of Chicago Press / Chicago and London Fred Turner is assistant professor of communication at Stanford University. He is the author of Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2006 by Fred Turner All rights reserved. Published 2006 Printed in the United States of America 15141312111009080706 12345 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81741-5 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-226-81741-5 (cloth) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Turner, Fred. From counterculture to cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth network, and the rise of digital utopianism / Fred Turner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-226-81741-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Computers and civilization. 2. Brand, Stewart. 3. Information technology—History—20th century. 4. Counterculture—United States— History—20th century. 5. Computer networks—Social aspects. 6. Subculture— California—San Francisco—History—20th century. 7. Technology—Social aspects— California, Northern. 8. Whole earth catalog. I. Title: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth network, and the rise of digital utopianism. II. Title. QA76.9.C66T875 2006 303.48Ј33 —dc22 2005034149 ᭺ϱ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. The Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor 11 2. Stewart Brand Meets the Cybernetic Counterculture 41 3. -
Networked Disruption Networked
NETWORKED DISRUPTION fter the emergence of Web 2.0, the critical framework of art and hacktivism has shifted from developing strategies of opposition to embarking on the art of disruption. By identifying the present Acontradictions within the economical and political framework of Web 2.0, hacker and artistic practices are analysed through business instead of in opposition to it. Connecting together disruptive practices of networked art and hacking BAZZICHELLI TATIANA TATIANA BAZZICHELLI in California and Europe, the author proposes a constellation of social networking projects that challenge the notion of power and hegemony, such as mail art, Neoism, Th e Church of the SubGenius, Luther Blissett, Anonymous, Anna Adamolo, Les Liens Invisibles, the Telekommunisten collective, Th e San Francisco Suicide Club, Th e Cacophony Society, the NETWORKED early Burning Man Festival, the NoiseBridge hackerspace, and many others. Tatiana Bazzichelli is a PhD Scholar at Aarhus University. She was a visiting scholar at Stanford University (2009) and is part of the transmediale DISRUPTION festival team in Berlin. Active in the Italian hacker community since the end of the ’90s, her project AHA won the honorary mention for digital RETHINKING OPPOSITIONS IN ART, HACKTIVISM communities at Ars Electronica in 2007. She has previously written the book Networking: Th e Net as Artwork (Costa & Nolan, 2006/DARC, AND THE BUSINESS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING 2008). www.networkingart.eu PHD DISSERTATION · AARHUS UNIVERSITY 2011 NETWORKED DISRUPTION Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking Tatiana Bazzichelli PhD Dissertation Department of Information and Media Studies Aarhus University 2011 Supervisor: Søren Pold, Associate Professor Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University. -
Curriculum Vitae 2
Most recent update: 2021.3.11 Pablo Javier Boczkowski Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University 2240 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208, USA Voice: +1-847-491-4157; fax: +1-847-467-1036; [email protected] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q4MLDisAAAAJ&hl=en 1. FULL-TIME POSITIONS 2010 – present Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University. Founder and Director, Center for Latinx Digital Media (2020 – present) Co-Founder and Co-Director, Center for Media and Society in Argentina, Northwestern University and Universidad de San Andrés (2015 – present) Founding Director, Master of Science Program in Leadership for Creative Enterprises (2014-17 and 2020 - present) Co-Director, Center for Global Culture and Communication (2019-20) Director, Doctoral Program in Media, Technology and Society (2011-14, and Fall 2019 in an interim capacity) Professor (2010 – 2020) Courtesy appointments, Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Department of Sociology, Department of Radio/Television/Film, Institute for Policy Research, and Program on Science in Human Culture. 2005 – 2010 Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University. 2001 – 2005 Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor of Organization Studies, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Courtesy appointments in the MIT Workplace Center and the Program in Comparative Media Studies. 2. OTHER POSITIONS 2019 – 2021 Senior Research Fellow, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin, Germany. 2018 – present Member, Research Institute, National Academy of Journalism of Argentina. 2010 – 2011 Visiting Scholar, Organizations and Markets Group, University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 2010 (June) Visiting Professor, Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés, Université Paris-Est. -
CV Academic Master 2014
FRED TURNER ____________________________________________________________________________________ (last updated July 1, 2014) Department of Communication Building 120 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2050 Phone: 650-723-0706 E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://fredturner.stanford.edu EDUCATION University of California, San Diego 2002 Ph.D. in Communication Columbia University 1985 M.A. in English and American Literature Brown University 1984 B.A., Magna Cum Laude, in English and American Literature ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Stanford University 2003-Present Associate Professor, Department of Communication, 2010-Present Associate Professor, by courtesy appointment, Department of Art and Art History, 2010-Present Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, 2003-2009 Director, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2011-Present Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Communication, 2004-2007 and 2008-Present Director, Co-Terminal Master’s Degree Program in Media Studies, Department of Communication, 2003-2004 Affiliated Faculty Member: Program in American Studies Turner – CV – Page 1 of 37 Program in Modern Thought and Literature Program in Science, Technology and Society Program in Symbolic Systems Program in Urban Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1990-2003 Sloan School of Management: Lecturer in Communication, 1999-2002 Visiting Instructor in Communication, 1990-1999 Comparative Media Studies Program: Master’s Thesis advisor, 2001-2003 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures: Research