make love & war | the two cultures of serendipity
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Learnings
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The Two Cultures of Serendipity
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The Two Cultures of SerendipityLLearnings
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1. WAR: (Cold) War Research in CyberneticsLLearnings
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The Inter-Discipline of CyberneticsLLearnings
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Wiener, the SerendipitologistLLearnings
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The Macy Conferences (1946-53)LLearnings
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“Designed to be intellectual free-for-alls, the conferences were radically interdisciplinary. Researchers from a wide variety of fields struggled to understand one another and make connections between others’ ideas and their own areas of expertise. In the process, a concept that may have begun as a model of a particular physical system came to have broader significance…” (Kathrin Hayles)
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J.C.R. Licklider, Director of ARPA’s IPTO (1962)
Intergalactic Computer Network
facilitating the idiosyncratic working methods of the scientific community
ARPANET: Inventing the InternetLLearnings
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2. LOVE: Hippies & PsychedeliaLLearnings
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CountercultureLLearnings
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Culture of SerendipityLLearnings
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Psychedelic Exploration & Artistic ExperimentationLLearnings
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Psychedelic Exploration & Artistic ExperimentationLLearnings
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Psychedelic Exploration & Artistic ExperimentationLLearnings
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Psychedelic Exploration & Artistic ExperimentationLLearnings
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3. LOVE MEETS WARLLearnings
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Steward BrandLLearnings
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‘the bible of my generation’
‘sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along’
Whole Earth CatalogueLLearnings
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Whole Earth CatalogueLLearnings
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Two Cultures of SerendipityLLearnings
Counterculture radical experimentation with technology and social organisation
Military-Industrial-Academic Complex knowledge sharing guided by the idiosyncrasies of academic work rather than quick ‘valorisation' etc.
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No digital revolution without cybernetics & hippies!
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LLearnings Conclusion
Policy for Serendipitous Innovation?LLearnings
Public Space for Art & Subculture
Massive Public Funding for Academic Idiosyncrasy
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