Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/16-01-2019 -Event 2

XPUB1: 11:00 - 17:00 RW&RM Steve in the small project space

Today we will discuss some texts on Ideology

Texts under discussion this week:

The Ruling Class and the Ruling ideas, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

(i) History of the Subaltern Classes; (ii) The Concept of 'Ideology'; (iii) Cultural Themes: Ideological Material, Antonio Gramsci

Encoding, Decoding, Stuart Hall

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/SH-Encoding-Decoding.pdf

Sub Culture, the Meaning of Style, Dick Hebdidge

http://www.erikclabaugh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/181899847-Subculture.pdf

The California Ideology, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron

http://www.comune.torino.it/gioart/big/bigguest/riflessioni/californian_engl.pdf

Interview with Fred Turner (author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties (2013), From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (2006))

https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/787284.Turner_Jandric.pdf

In which he states:

"And how was it that people who had been leaders in what I thought was an anti-war counter- culture should be promoting computers now?

To answer these questions, I started tracing the networks of writers and thinkers associated with Wired magazine back in time. I quickly began to see that many of them had in fact come together at one of the signal publications of the 1960s, the Whole Earth Catalog, which Stewart Brand had founded to serve the back-to-the-land commune movement of the time. From Counter- culture to Cyberculture thus became the story of Stewart Brand and his network and the ways they came to couch the arrival of digital media in terms set by the counterculture."