Week 9 Lecture - Cybernetics, Counterculture, and Cyberculture

Sophia Liu, April 1st, 2025

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Boone Ashworth. The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online. Wired. 2023.
• Required [Ed post] Logic(s). Don’t Be Evil: Fred Turner on Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers. 2017.
• Required [Ed post] Bri Griffin. There is no 'Nice' Web. Yet.. Laguna~B. 2025.
• Recommended [Ed post] Whole Earth Index (explore!).
• Recommended [Ed post] John Markoff. What the Silicon Valley Prophet Sees on the Horizon. New York Times. 2022.
• Optional [Ed post] Sophia Liu. The Whole Earth CataBlog. 2024.

CS H195 Readings