BS: Stewart Brand-Ectopragmatist

Subject: BS: Stewart Brand-Ectopragmatist
From: Janie
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 10:53 PM

Heard an interview today with Stewart Brand and learned that he has a new book book out, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

Us old hippie types will remember him as one of the founders of Co-Evolution Quarterly/Whole Earth Review and the Whole Earth Catologs. A very bright man and deep thinker, I understand that he puts forth some ideas that many of us will find quite startling, given our memories of him as a "back-to-the-earth" guru. I intend to read it, and see if it shakes my paradigm.

Subject: RE: BS: Stewart Brand-Ectopragmatist
From: Janie
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 10:59 PM

I remember that as Whole Earth Review focused more and more on computer technologies I quit reading, and eventually stopped subscribing. It was ahead of me. I didn't have a home computer until 2002, and didn't have access to, or use them at work until the late '90's. When I stopped subscribing, I was disgusted with them. It was years later before I understood how ahead of the curve Brand, Jay Baldwin, and the other frequent contributors and editors were. In short, they were so far ahead of me that they lost me.

Subject: RE: BS: Stewart Brand-Ectopragmatist
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 11:26 PM

Not Ectoplasmic Pragmatist?

'Splain me, Looooocy......!


~S~