Wholeness, naturalness, self-realization: with this trinity, the hippie movement, which began in the 1960s, questioned ideals of affluence. Their alternatives were based on liberal principles, however, which would soon feed into a new neo-liberalism. As a counterculture of the 1960s already favorable of technology, their alternatives fused easily with techno-utopias in Silicon Valley during the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, ecology, technology, and market liberalism have merged to become globally circulating standards that we encounter as a constant eco-ideological call. With their sarcastic 1979 song “California Uber Alles,” the punk band Dead Kennedys already criticized the virtually totalitarian claim of eco-holism, that excludes those who think differently, presenting itself as a promise of salvation. Illumination with obstacles.
The Whole Earth – California as Dialectic Image. Panel with Anselm Franke and Diedrich Diederichsen
HKW Talk on the Anthropocene. With Diedrich Diederichsen on The Whole Earth, Min. 9:00
Video Inquiry – Questions for the curators of the exhibition The Whole Earth, Diedrich Diederichsen
HKW Talk on the Anthropocene. With Anselm Franke, Min 15:10
HKW Talk on the Anthropocene. With Fred Turner
From Counterculture to Cyberculture. Keynote by Fred Turner
Blog on The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside (German)
Öko / Cyber / Neo – Was gab’s Neues für Sie …? Audioumfrage aus dem Blog System Erde (German)
Videointerview mit Diedrich Diederichsen – Nach dem Ende vom Aussen (German)
Bob Marley „Exodus“ 1977 Lyrics by Bob Marley © Universal Music Publishing Group
The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside. Program