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• Author: Walker, Jesse
• Position: Briefly Noted - From Counterculture to Cyberculture - Brief article - Book review

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In 1968 the first Whole Earth Catalog invoked the "power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested." Four decades later, a new wave of scholarship is exploring that publication's influence. On the heels of Fred Turner's 2006 book From Counterculture to Cyberculture, which examined the Catalog's connections to today's "digital utopianisrn," the cultural historian Andrew Kirk has published Counterculture Green (University Press of Kansas).

Kirk's topics range from space colonies to the origins of the...