Artists, Punks, and Techies in the Golden City
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July 1, 2020May 8, 2022Correspondence

Artists, Punks, and Techies in the Golden City

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If I recall correctly—always a  dangerous way to start a sentence—it was sometime in the early to mid-’70s that John D. Berry wrote in his fanzine Hitchhike about a line of thinking that placed value on having “a sense of place.” My memory hasn’t retained where he got this notion from—possibly from an issue of Whole Earth Catalog—but the...

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June 1, 1991April 21, 2022Correspondence

Soviet Agitprop Implodes

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Though it gets harder to remember with every passing day, one of the long-established premises of the recently ended Cold War was the notion that both the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. were engaged in an ideological battle for the minds and souls of the world’s population. In line with this the West used powerful...