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Whilst this is not my piece of work, it closely relates to some of the stuff I tried to talk about and follow up when I was staying in Los Angeles in 2011 (see here). It's a book about how a guy named Stewart Brand planfully reframed the future. Just by propagating a picture of planet Earth as seen from above. The whole earth.

The Whole Earth is a museum catalogue that shows how some of the most influential ideas of our current day politics and private lives evolved out of Californian Counterculture. The (now closed) exhibtion at Haus der Kulturen der Welt followed the development of the Whole Earth Catalogue which is the missing link between the Grateful Dead, Wired Magazine and The Club of Rome. It traces the common roots of holism, techno-optimism, ecologism and cybernetics. Get it at Sternberg Press.