Title & Author:

The whole earth : California and the disappearance of the outside / editors: Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke.

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2013]
©2013

Description:

207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition The Whole Earth, California and the Disappearance of the Outside, from April 26 to July 1, 2013, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin."--Page 206
Includes work by artists: Nabil Ahmed, Ant Farm, Eleanor Antin, Martin Beck, Jordan Belson, Ashley Bickerton, Dara Birnbaum, Erik Bulatov, Angela Bulloch, Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Bruce Conner, Öyvind Fahlström, Robert Frank, Jack Goldstein, Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Jordan, Silvia Kolbowski, Philipp Lachenmann, David Lamelas, Sharon Lockhart, Piero Manzoni, The Otolith Group, Raymond Pettibon, Adrian Piper, Robert Rauschenberg, Ira Schneider, Richard Serra, Alex Slade, Jack Smith, Suzanne Treister, Andy Warhol, and Bruce Yonemoto.
Includes bibliographical references.
The whole earth / Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke -- Earthrise and the disappearance of the outside / Anselm Franke -- Pop music and the counterculture / Diedrich Diederichsen -- Visual essay. Universalism -- The politics of the whole / Fred Turner -- Whole earths, 1968-1980 / Norman M. Klein -- Navigating in and with the system / Sabeth Buchmann -- Visual essay. Frontier : at the Pacific wall -- Plan the planet / John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Territorial Agency -- From here to California / Laurence A. Rickels -- Visual essay. Whole systems -- A thousand ecologies / Erich Hörl -- The limit of limitlessness / Eva Meyer -- Visual essay. Boundless interior -- "After we knew that the Earth was a sphere" / Flora Lysen -- Medium earth / Kodwo Eshun -- Visual essay. Apocalyse, Babylon, simulation -- On the Californian utopia/ideology / Maurizio Lazzarato -- The power of information / Mercedes Bunz -- Visual essay. Self incorporated/networks and the long boom -- Visual essay. The earth is not whole -- Musical stations of the counterculture.

Summary:

"In the year 1966, a young man named Stewart Brand handed out buttons in San Francisco reading: "Why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?" Two years later, the NASA photograph of the "blue planet" appeared on the cover of the Whole Earth Catalog. In creating the catalogue, frequently described as the analogue forerunner of Google, Brand had founded one of the most influential publications of recent decades. It mediated between cyberneticists and hippies, nature romantics and technology geeks, psychedelia and computer culture, and thus triggered defining impulses for the environmentalist movement and the rise of the digital network culture. The photo of the blue planet developed a sphere of influence like almost no other image: it stands not only for ecological awareness and crisis but also for a new sense of unity and globalization. The universal picture of "One Earth" hence anticipated an image of the end of the Cold War, whose expansion into space it accompanied, and overwrote or neutralized political lines of conflict by transferring classical politics and criticism of it to other categories, such as cybernetic management or ecology. The exhibition "The Whole Earth" is an essay composed of cultural-historical materials and artistic positions that critically address the rise of the image of "One Earth" and the ecological paradigm associated with it. The accompanying publication includes image-rich visual essays that explore key themes: "Universalism," "Whole Systems," "Boundless Interior," and "Apocalypse, Babylon, Simulation," among others. These are surrounded by critical essays that shed light onto 1960s California and the networked culture that emerged from it."--Publisher's website

ISBN:

9783943365641 (paper)
3943365646 (paper)

Subject:

Whole Earth catalog (Menlo Park, Calif.) Exhibitions.
Art and society United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Counterculture United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Environmentalism Social aspects Exhibitions.
Multimedia (Art) Exhibitions.
Art et société États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Contre-culture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Environnementalisme Aspect social Expositions.
Œuvres multimédias (Art) Expositions.
Art and society.
Counterculture.
Environmentalism Social aspects.
Multimedia (Art)
United States.

Form/genre:

Exhibition Publications.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Diederichsen, Diedrich, curator, editor.
Franke, Anselm, curator, editor.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, host institution.

California and the disappearance of the outside
Stay hungry

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285066
Call No.: BIB 224407
Status: Available