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counter culture net thing
just a few scattered thoughts related to the early days of the popular conception of the net
cyberspace, the consensual hallucination, born out of w. gibson's real hallucinations
early 90s "VR" geekery - informed by terence mckenna's wonderful mad ravings about networks of fungul cells under the soil
jaron lanier's squid, and panpipes.
a point, finally, or a direction rather, for the scattered wanderings and psychic waste of 'counter culture'. and the point of reference, toward the networked, was born from graph paper and ink stained pockets of them mathematical boys at DARPA. average age of the folks in mission control, when we put men on the moon,,, was 26. and those guys weren't riding the mycelium rings.
so is the culture of the net as we know it most in debt to the Freemasons, the romping and naked pagans in Big Sur, or those book-hitting kids with parted hair who ended up shaking the rug beneath the military-industrials?
cyberspace, the consensual hallucination, born out of w. gibson's real hallucinations
early 90s "VR" geekery - informed by terence mckenna's wonderful mad ravings about networks of fungul cells under the soil
jaron lanier's squid, and panpipes.
a point, finally, or a direction rather, for the scattered wanderings and psychic waste of 'counter culture'. and the point of reference, toward the networked, was born from graph paper and ink stained pockets of them mathematical boys at DARPA. average age of the folks in mission control, when we put men on the moon,,, was 26. and those guys weren't riding the mycelium rings.
so is the culture of the net as we know it most in debt to the Freemasons, the romping and naked pagans in Big Sur, or those book-hitting kids with parted hair who ended up shaking the rug beneath the military-industrials?
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