Sunday, August 25, 2019

whole earth catalog assorted links

Free access to digital Whole Earth Catalog:

https://monoskop.org/images/0/09/Brand_Stewart_Whole_Earth_Catalog_Fall_1968.pdf


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog

http://www.wholeearth.com/index.php

https://twitter.com/wholeearth?lang=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31mXWZAgCF4&feature=youtu.be    Stewart Brand et al.

Haus Der Kulturen der Welt

https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2013/the_whole_earth/start_the_whole_earth.

Fred Turner - Keynote talk: From Counter-culture to cyberculture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Py_P1_cHUE   

James Nisbet, Art Historian UC California Irvine, Chicago Humanities talk


Book:  Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnoft4ntHrI


New Yorker The Complicated Legacy..

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-complicated-legacy-of-stewart-brands-whole-earth-catalog


Selected Influences: Ginsberg, Connor, Snyder, Kesey, Leary



http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/49303



 Howl 1959 Ginsberg reading 
 Howl  Later reading by Ginsberg

Bruce Connor

Bruce Connor  Looking for Mushrooms  1967 
Expecting a nuclear disaster, Conner moved down to Mexico in 1962, where he spent his time looking for mushrooms with Timothy Leary. Later, Conner added footage of similar hunts in Frisco and in 1997 he decided to set it against a 1968 Terry Riley soundtrack. The result is a strange combination of typical 60s psychedelic editing with what might appear to be a road movie interested in exotic landscapes.

Gary Snyder
(born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology".[2] Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder served as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and he also served for a time on the California Arts Council.

Beat

Gary Snyder is widely regarded as a member of the Beat Generation circle of writers: he was one of the poets that read at the famous Six Gallery event, and was written about in one of Kerouac's most popular novels, The Dharma Bums. Some critics argue that Snyder's connection with the Beats is exaggerated and that he might better be regarded as a member of the West-Coast group the San Francisco Renaissance, which developed independently. Snyder himself has some reservations about the label "Beat", but does not appear to have any strong objection to being included in the group. He often talks about the Beats in the first person plural, referring to the group as "we" and "us".
A quotation from a 1974 interview at the University of North Dakota Writers Conference (published in The Beat Vision):
I never did know exactly what was meant by the term 'The Beats', but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen [Ginsberg], myself, Michael [McClure], Lawrence [Ferlinghetti], Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory [Corso], for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years. Where we began to come really close together again, in the late '60s, and gradually working toward this point, it seems to me, was when Allen began to take a deep interest in Oriental thought and then in Buddhism which added another dimension to our levels of agreement; and later through Allen's influence, Lawrence began to draw toward that; and from another angle, Michael and I after the lapse of some years of contact, found our heads very much in the same place, and it's very curious and interesting now; and Lawrence went off in a very political direction for a while, which none of us had any objection with, except that wasn't my main focus. It's very interesting that we find ourselves so much on the same ground again, after having explored divergent paths; and find ourselves united on this position of powerful environmental concern, critique of the future of the individual state, and an essentially shared poetics, and only half-stated but in the background very powerfully there, a basic agreement on some Buddhist type psychological views of human nature and human possibilities.[53]



Poet Gary Snyder  Reading  from No Nature

Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He experimented with LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and DMT. He wrote many detailed accounts of his experiences with these drugs. He frequently entertained friends and many others with parties he called "Acid Tests", involving music (such as Kesey's favorite band, the Grateful Dead), black lights, fluorescent paint, strobes and other "psychedelic" effects, and, of course, LSD.

Ken Kesey on LSD utube

The Great Bus Race Excerpt from Rolling Stone. Whole Earth Catalog website. 

"KQED News report from U.C. Berkeley's Greek Theatre on May 12th 1970 featuring a speech by Ken Kesey, about the media's negative influence on society." 

Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist, philosopher,[1][2][3][4][5] and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Timothy Leary left Harvard University after Richard Alpert was fired for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate.
Leary believed that LSD showed potential for therapeutic use in psychiatry. He used LSD himself and developed a philosophy of mind expansion and personal truth through LSD.[6][7] He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as "turn on, tune in, drop out", "set and setting", and "think for yourself and question authority". He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanist concepts involving space migration, intelligence increase, and life extension (SMI²LE),[8] and developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book Exo-Psychology (1977). He had difficulty generating income and supported himself at times with personal appearances, billing himself as a "stand-up philosopher".[9]
During the 1960s and 1970s, he was arrested often enough to see the inside of 29 different prisons worldwide. President Richard Nixon once described Leary as "the most dangerous man in America".[10]

Timothy Leary: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1966) recording

Timothy Leary:  Folsum Prison interview