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We started the library as way to gather, look at, and catalog a groundswell of optimistic and visionary activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We had discussions about the similarities between a handful of books we knew of, and the culture of Mess Hall, an experimental cultural center in Chicago that we were active in for many years. These books are written from the counterculture. Their authors were interested in communicating their direct experience as it related to their experiments for living in harmony with the natural landscape, building sustainable communities, and so on. We were excited to read about practical applications of optimistic ideas for radical change, and to continue putting our own ideas into this tradition.
There are parallels between the cultural and political climate of the 1970s and current global conditions. However, we feel that an important difference is in the absence of a massive counter-cultural movement for change. We face many of the same problems: large-scale ideological wars, energy crises, environmental devastation, destructive global capitalism and more. The hopeful quality of these books encourages us in developing a movement of our own, in the form of how-to manuals with the explicit intent of building a new society of optimistic resistance.
I was not able to find Goodreads records for:
- Culture Breakers: Alternatives & Other Numbers, Ken Isaacs, New York: MSS Educational Publishing Company, 1970, 190 pages
- The Cunt Coloring Book, Drawings by Tee Corinne (self-published in 1975), Re-print by Last Gasp, 1988, 48 pages, paperback. staple-bound, ISBN-13: 978-086719-371-8
- Earthworm II: Community Directory, By The Free Prairie Community, 1973, 52 pages, staple-bound
- Modern Utopian: Up-Dated Directory of Communes, Double Issue: Volume 4, No. 3 & 4, Berkeley, California, 1970
- Radical Software, “The TV Environment,” Volume 2, No. 2, Edited by Beryl Korot and Ira Schneider, Gordon and Breach, 1973, 64 pages, staple-bound
- The San Francisco Bay Area People’s Yellow Pages: Number Four, Made and distributed by Mary Donnis, Sally Harms, Winifred Mullinack, Joan Saffa, Diane Sampson, and Jan Zobel, 1975, 193 pages, paperback
- Space City!, Volume 2, Number 5, August 1-21, 1970, Houston, Texas
We started the library as way to gather, look at, and catalog a groundswell of optimistic and visionary activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We had discussions about the similarities between a handful of books we knew of, and the culture of Mess Hall, an experimental cultural center in Chicago that we were active in for many years. These books are written from the counterculture. Their authors were interested in communicating their direct experience as it related to their experiments for living in harmony with the natural landscape, building sustainable communities, and so on. We were excited to read about practical applications of optimistic ideas for radical change, and to continue putting our own ideas into this tradition.
There are parallels between the cultural and political climate of the 1970s and current global conditions. However, we feel that an important difference is in the absence of a massive counter-cultural movement for change. We face many of the same problems: large-scale ideological wars, energy crises, environmental devastation, destructive global capitalism and more. The hopeful quality of these books encourages us in developing a movement of our own, in the form of how-to manuals with the explicit intent of building a new society of optimistic resistance.
I was not able to find Goodreads records for:
- Culture Breakers: Alternatives & Other Numbers, Ken Isaacs, New York: MSS Educational Publishing Company, 1970, 190 pages
- The Cunt Coloring Book, Drawings by Tee Corinne (self-published in 1975), Re-print by Last Gasp, 1988, 48 pages, paperback. staple-bound, ISBN-13: 978-086719-371-8
- Earthworm II: Community Directory, By The Free Prairie Community, 1973, 52 pages, staple-bound
- Modern Utopian: Up-Dated Directory of Communes, Double Issue: Volume 4, No. 3 & 4, Berkeley, California, 1970
- Radical Software, “The TV Environment,” Volume 2, No. 2, Edited by Beryl Korot and Ira Schneider, Gordon and Breach, 1973, 64 pages, staple-bound
- The San Francisco Bay Area People’s Yellow Pages: Number Four, Made and distributed by Mary Donnis, Sally Harms, Winifred Mullinack, Joan Saffa, Diane Sampson, and Jan Zobel, 1975, 193 pages, paperback
- Space City!, Volume 2, Number 5, August 1-21, 1970, Houston, Texas
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4 voters ·
list created May 1st, 2019
by Dave Menninger (votes) .
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