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Theodore Roszak has advanced a similar argument in From Satori to Silicon Valley (1986), a monograph that traces the rise of the personal-computer industry to countercultural values of the period.

John Markoff • What the Dormouse Said

During this formative time, she developed the roots of what one historian has called her “ecosocial” interpretation of the built environment, which considered architecture and the built environment to be an extension and manifestation of human ecology.5 This preference for the social led her to elevate Buckminster Fuller’s ecological utopianism ove... See more

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The Rise of the New Romanticism

Ross Barkan rosselliotbarkan.com

“The Case for Letting Malibu Burn,” a chapter from Ecology of Fear, Davis argued that taxpayers shouldn’t keep forking out to rebuild a wealthy district that predictably burned to the ground every couple of decades. Davis

Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

Deep ecology

Marjorie Kelly • Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution

Ervin Laszlo in The Chaos Point.

Barbara Marx Hubbard • Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence

It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought. THEODORE ROSZAK, “IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS”

Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild

There is a non-linear relationship between the age structure of vegetation and the intensity of fires. Fifty-year-old trees burn fifty times more intensely than twenty-year-old trees. However, because of the power of influential residents living in the Malibu region, since 1919 the local policy has been one of ‘total fire suppression’. This means t

John Urry • What is the Future?

Ecology came out around the same time, suggesting that the “patriarchal foreground” of the visible world can be overcome by contemporary women “moving beyond the boundaries of patriarchal space” into the “matriarchal background” of our re-membered ancient past.