Californian Ideology
The Anthropocene Project. An Encyclopedia
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.
More information in the media section
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
External links for further reading
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
