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Hi, I think this is the right place to post this. I am always in awe, just awe, of how brilliant and penetrating a critique Simon Sadler is on matters that we can surely call “ecological design.” When I think about the lineaments of EDC, its mix of Baltimore based social activism (in particular its alliances with black community organizations) and cybernetic enthusiasms borrowed from contemporary ecological philosophy, environmental anthropology, and civic engagement, I really cannot help but feel we are directly downstream of the 1974 edition of the Whole Earth Catalogue’s Co-Evolution Quarterly, in all of its overlaps and tensions between hippies and panthers, as detailed here: https://www.academia.edu/25846853/Mandalas_or_Raised_Fists_Hippie_Holism_Panther_Totality_and_Another_Modernism @anand @Lee @Nicole, here’s to self-knowledge.
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Mandalas or Raised Fists? Hippie Holism, Panther Totality, and Another Modernism
In what way was there a "Hippie Modernism," as the Walker Art Center thought-provokingly framed its 2015 exhibition? Modernism implied that human actions can create a better world, and this demanded an understanding of the whole in which