tapping into the star-spangled Midwest night. "I've been chea ted, been mis-treat -ed" . . "When tech companies address white supremacy online as a disinformation problem, they use counter-extremism frameworks that function through anti-Black Islamophobia.". The paper documents the authors analysis of documentation related to 113 computer-vision data sets, and contains many useful articulations of a problem weve been grappling with in a client project this week. Ill leave you with a quote from it, outlining which values tended to dominate in these data sets, and which tend to be silenced: For each present value, we identify a contrasting silenced value values that are overlooked or implicitly devalued in favor of the embraced values. The two are among the handful of signatories of the Declaration of Interdependence, a document unveiled at a press conference at Berkeley in September 1969. ", Through his Indian network Brand had discovered peyote, and in 1962 in Palo Alto paid $500 to take part in a legal LSD experiment. . Community. . There's this bright, sassy editor-reviewer sashaying through its pages, but that was all projected, it wasn't me. . His father was an engineer-turned-ad-man with a basement full of tools and radio gear. I'll never see it again.' Read ourprivacy notice to find out more about our use of cookies and how we treat your personal data. He died in 1966. I said, 'You let him have it?! I don't think Stewart could have got going without her, or some woman like her. "A successful new catalog might pay for many years of a continued CQ which could lose money with aplomb," Brand told the magazine's readers early this year. . That same year he launched Son of "Whole Earth," The CoEvolution Quarterly. Brown says he hadn't noticed. ", Brand himself says he has no regrets: "I'm interested in all forms of innovative broadcast. In a rather different bit of the futures forest, I was lucky enough to see a screening of a documentary about Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth catalog and (as my v smart friend Sarah Drinkwater described him) Internet hype man. And what about Gary Snyders Call of the Wild? I'm sure the governor was a little surprised to discover what an obsequious, three-piece-suit-wearing, 'yessir-boss' underling I was." "That night was the first time I'd been really happy in about five years ," says Brand. Careful Industries 2022. Lois was a scuffling, 20th-century Indian woman -- short and brown, wore glasses, and a frown, and was trying to do as much as she could for her people. Whatever its reaction to his born-again catalog, he believes his generation has acquitted itself well. Then, for seven years he taught mathematics and was superintendent of a Missouri military, academy before beginning his eight-year stay at the University of Maine. On the topic of people who see the future, The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight is a wonderful read that tells the true story of the formation of a network of people who felt they could do just that. There were blazing, blinding lights, five count 'em, movie projectors, spots, black light, Day-Glo . winging into future-unknown . "And here I am." He identifies and presents concepts not yet part of the conventional wisdom. "A drugless PSYCHEDELIC experience," said the press release. . Summers were spent amid the high white pines at Higgins Lake in Michigan, where his clan gathered in sequestered Victorian houses -- "a rich tribal scene," he remembers, featuring assorted family drunks, a certain amount of intermarriage, and "strolling off into the woods and having nothing bad happen." "If it's all right with you," signed off Brand at the end of the "Last" catalog, "I'm going back to the tree." Brown's people were not amused. . What about the Green New Deal? Here, working 70-hour weeks, fueled by Diet Dr. Peppers and an occasional joint, he and a crew of 20 are editing, designing and typewetting their megacatalog. . "Neither dope nor revolution turned out to be the answer to anything. During production of the "Last" catalog, he was going through a tank a week of nitrous oxide -- laughing gas. So he called him up in Palo Alto, and Kesey said, fine, come on down, and Brand did, showed him a 40-minute, two-projector slide-sound show he'd put together called "WAR-GOD" which stunned many who saw it with its fantastical mix of babies, bulldozers, Buddhas and bombs. ", Brown: "I wouldn't say it bothered me. seek you, seek you, seek you . I could see also doing without my marriage, and though that was a really basic commitment that I wouldn't think of changing short of desperate circumstances. "You're going to turn it off like some child of itinerant interests . Impartiality is valued over positionality, an embracing of the social and political influences on understanding the world. Less privilege to the specialist. . He thought of himself as a brave. The month it was published, Brand threw a "Demise Party" for the Last" catalog at San Francisco's cavernous Palace of Arts and Sciences. ", "Is this the longed-for metamorphosis," Brand once wrote, "our brilliant wings at last? He dreams no more of the pretty little Indian girl he married, nor of the Great Bus Race in the mountainside meadows above Santa Fe, which was going to be one bus at a time against the clock, but Kesey said that was a two-bit race and it had to be all buses together, and so, acid-laced, they careened across the pasture like berserk pigs, revving blindly over pup tents in the dusty din. 'Well, maybe it's the catalog that has me freaked,' so I stopped the catalog. He is wearing Levis, no shirt and a yellow mesh cap his fished out of the bay because it reminded him of one Robert Shaw wore in "Jaws. LATELY STEWART Brand's dreams have been so boring : duty dreams, overhead phone calls, editing the same chapter ad infinitum . Random House is pushing it as a survival manual for the '80s, relief from the economic crunch. . And it's gone.". On the walls are Whole Earth schedules, a blueptint of his 30-foot sloop, some snapshots and a large map of the ocean floor. "Bassstards," he mutters, referring to tax collectors at multiple levels of government. The character Nadia Vulvokov, while persuading someone that another life is possible, says, Life is like a box of timelines, which, in retrospect, would have been an excellent title for our Civil Society Foresight Observatory report. ." . . Another rather depressing article about the ever-increasing encroachment of digitised and automated systems into social security, and how they just dont work very well. "They're the same age, they're hard workers, not decadent goof-offs, and both are somewhat aloof and puritanical," says Brand's friend and Brown's biographer, Orville Schell. And cleaves to it." "I wasn't sure if they were the good guys or the pathetic leftover bad guys or what the hell they were, but after I left there nothing looked the same. . buttons, put on a top hat and a sandwich board, and took his one-man show on the Berkeley-to-Harvard road. Soon after they met, Brand began moonlighting for the governor as a special consultant, then was invited to spend a few months (at $2,000 a month) working full-time on Brown's personal staff. Its All Gardening, says Stewart Brand in his book Whole Earth Discipline. Workers at ID.me told stories of sharing customers personal data over Slack, which made it vulnerable to hackers, worries over the ease with which someone could steal personal information, and staff feeling under enormous pressure to process claims quickly rather than accurately. A round up of some of the things we're reading (and watching) this month. . Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. That summer, he and Lois bounced along the New Mexico-Colorado commune circuit in their scuzzy Dodge pickup -- the Truck Store -- peddling their skimpy wares, books mostly, and discovering how badly help was needed. A repairman hovers over the IBMSelectric Composer, oblivious to the wails of Linda Ronstadt. . Our newsletter sign-up is provided by Mailchimp. In Sacramento, he orchestrated a Whale Day, a Space Day, and -- in acknowledgement of his five-year antimetric campaign -- was appointed by Brown to California's Metric Conversion Council. Though he observed us and sometimes rode with us, he's too much of a chief to travel in another person's pack. Believing "they were having adventures galore over there," he was anxious to join the American advisors who were just then starting to descend on Vietnam. it's just not going to happen. . "It was an illusion and a lie," he says. ", For the next couple of years, Brand drifted through the higher realms. "It's embarrassing," Brand told Newsweek, one of several national publications by now on the case. With the help of Lois and a small staff of hippies, he kept supplementing and updating the catalog, incorporating reader feedback, weeding out, adding . In Palo Alto, the world flew open. . "The cumulative effect is exhilarating: in place of whining, pot-lit, doomed youth, as conjured up in a thousand solemn editorials, a different generation materializes -- one that has come to work as well as play . When you're trying to churn out 608 pages in less than six months, and Random House is nervously waiting to put 100,000 sight-unseen copies in the stores by Christmas, and you've just gone to your cold TV dinner, exaltation is elusive. . Brand's mother was a bright, forceful woman whose own father had made a bundle in wholesale hardware, leaving the Rockford Brands rich enough to send Stewart first to a spiffy private day school and later to Exeter. Brand stayed out there in the spheres, doing his thing, whatever it was, or wasn't, until his father's long dying triggered "the most effective idea I've ever had.". At Exeter, Brand "smiled a lot," garnered a B-plus average, and read enough Steinbeck to hear the siren call of the bohemian West. . He would like somehow to serve them. "These kids were trying to be artists with their communities, but we were all starting from such abysmal ignorance. Disciplinary Values in Computer Vision Dataset Development, Shopping in Jail, Ideas, Essays and Stories for the Increasingly Real Twenty-First Century, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Oh, there's the occasional flying dream --those are the best. Brand was astounded at what he found. Recommended by: Dominique, Design Researcher. There must be room for all of these. They posit that the logic of anti-Black Islamophobia undergirds surveillance technologies even when Black/Muslim communities are not the specific targets of the technology. . The universe was on upside-down. Asked to say something nice about CQ for a promitional mailing, Mother Earth News editor-publisher John Shuttleworth wrote back, "It was hot stuff as the 'Whole Earth Catalog,' but it's endlessly boring now. . "The other night I dreamt I was a member of a country and punk band. So successful, in fact, was his catalog that Brand decided to kill it. For a few hundred dollars, Brand hired the Longshoremen's Hall in San Francisco, enlisted Kesey, Bill Graham and a few others, called the newspapers, and for three nights one weekend in January 1966 settled back with the exquisite sense of having not the slightest idea of what might happen and let it cook. He served as. He promptly ordered 10,000 "Why Haven't We Seen . He was all set to apply to the University of Idaho to pursue a Ph.D. in forest-firefighting when an Exeter teacher suggested he try Stanford first. Work halts for afternoon volleyball, halts again for a mass inspection of the office caterpillar-turned-butterfly. ", It was quickly apparent that the Truck Store was a idea whose time had not come.The catalog was a different story. The internet has taken something that was once inside of us and put it outside of us, has made it searchable, mashable, stealable, and tinkerable., Recommended by: Craig Grady, Design Lab Facilitator. ", "Stewart was ambitious in a way that the rest of us weren't," says Kesey. . . You'd look at the news and it would be just one long hilarious laugh -- those poor suckers didn't know anything. Terms and Conditions, Civil Society Foresight Observatory report, Do Datasets Have Politics? . And for all people. ", Some convictions held up better than others. Predictably, both catalogs reveal much of the paradoxical man who created them. Hmm. "This is W9HOA calling CQ . There was one bump in the Brand-Brown relationship. Check. No, no thanks, not that. The film paints a very clear picture of how much Brands early career profited from the Native American people he started out by photographing, and how the Whole Earth catalog got off the ground because of the labour of his ex-wife, Ottawa Native American mathematician Lois Jennings. "Steward runs the best playpen in West," says production manager Anne Herbert. It's the opposite of what you have to do to survive. A wooden windmill with cloth sails grinding local corn does. . Im just getting started with this collection of Essays and Stories by Canadian visual artist Douglas Coupland. We didn't know practical-A from practical-B. Besides, there were one or two sensational women.

. Nor does he dream now of his dad, Arthur (Bob) Brand, sitting in the basement hamshack back in Illinois, night after night searching for strangers on the gleaming World War II radio equipment -- "Hello CQ, CQ, CQ" . ", A pet conviction that Brand himself has shed is the gospel of self-sufficiency. "An unsuccessful new catalog would decisively crash the business in flames -- not a bad way to go." Why, he mused one afternoon on a half-dose of acid, haven't we seen a photograph of the whole earth yet? . My name is Stewart. Here, read it.'

. For example, "Facebook's partnership with Moonshot in response to an Islamophobic massacre [in Christchurch in 2019] provided legitimacy to counter-extremism logics built on the ongoing surveillance and traumatization of Muslim communities". . To survive you've got to have friends. "He had the move and the drive to have made it in anything -- could have owned a big computer-programming company by now, or could have been, may still be, a senator. My instrument was a chainsaw. ", Brand included the letter in the 447-page "Last Whole Earth Catalog," which appeared as promised in mid-1971, Published by Portola and distributed by Random House, the first printing took off like a prairie fire, as did the next and the next and the next . whatever interests me," e.g., astropollution, botanic architecture, cross-generation marriage, interspecies music, backwoods ethics, punk medicine and, in the current issue, lesbian insemination. When he learned that the assignment would require another three years in the Army, he let it go. and have at the stage itself.". It was thus primed that Brand met Ken Kessey. Back in the Bay Area, he "went slowly through the knothole" with a shrink, and wrote magazine articles about his latest enthusiasms -- computer spacewar games and cybernetic philosopher Gregory Bateso. Zap! Ah, well, the wings of man come hard, and Stewart is anchored by sensible gravities at his core. . Cheered Benjamin DeMott in Life. Like him, they are earnest and prankish, skeptical and optimistic, eminently practical and charged with the dreams of boys. P.O. it wasn't just that he was quieter, or never wore his hair long (hell, Kesey was bald), or dropped less acid than the rest. At $12.50 a soft-bound copy, Brand's"Next Whole Earth Catalog" will be hard-pressed to match the success of its famous predecessor, a publishing phenomenon (1.6 million copies sold) and winner of the 1972 National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs. there was something in Brand that wouldn't, or couldn't, quite break loose, let go. Clad in a black monk's robe, he asked that the 1,500 guests decide what good to do with two hunderd $100 bills, about the amount it cost to bankroll "Whole Earth." Lastly, focussing less on the future and more on the now, thanks to a tweet from Abeba Birhane I found this open-access open ACM paper, Do Datasets Have Politics? Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. The article also presents evidence that when the system didnt work, for example for people without a fixed home address due to homelessness, or who couldnt access a decent internet connection or camera, workers couldnt help them. In a year, the printing had shot up to 160,000 and the catalog was making money. . (Brand often printed transcripts of the late-night conversions in CQ -- "sort of the imperial scribe," says Schell). They duplicate his flight from boredom, his lust to know , his wonder at the world.

"I don't think anyone ever came down on him very hard," says Brand's good friend Rusty Schweickart, "but they wondered why Stewart had to make the gubernatorial association -- does he really need that kind of honey to attract the fly? tHe shopped exclusively in catalogs, usually manically so.". "It became a touchstone of a whole spiritual domain, one I can tap into or not." We're not currently working on any projects specific to surveillance at the moment but I think it is important for us as researchers focused on the social impacts of technologies to consider the foundational logics that shape the digital world and whose impacts may not be so visible or easy to understand on the surface. He joined the Native American Church, consumed peyote with them in ceremony at Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico in the 1960s. Taylor explains some of the limits of a hyper-focus on "watching" as the central critique in mainstream surveillance studies and how this results in some of the broader violences of surveillance technologies being overlooked. ", Jerry brown hardly thinks so. It was a little embarrassing to have a live one looking at them and making judgments, probably. ", Brand came away from his foray into state government with heightened respect for Jerry Brown: "What's so rare about him is that he doesn't have a big scheme about what everybody should be doing -- he's completely a process man. He camped out in cars, in a Sausalito houseboat, in a Santa Fe steeple, in a $20-a-month apartment in North Beach, in a teepee pitched in Dick Alpert's backyard in Los Altos hills, in a speechwriter's office at the Department of Interior, in a succession of box trailers parked on friends' properties around Palo Alto. Kesey liked it, and Brand in turn right away liked what he saw on Perry Lane, liked the casual consumption of drugs in front of strangers, liked especially Kesey himself -- "the most charismatic character I've ever met, bar none." .". was replaced now by long-term contractual obligations and fearsome burdens of responsibility. ", During a two-year Army hitch following graduation, Brand wangled himself a job as a Pentagon photographer. Brand and Brown first met at the San Francisco Zen Center shortly after the governor took office. This is an idea he draws from Snyder, who writes, we are all finally inhabitory on this one small blue-green planet. To which Brand replies, might as well get good at it. Somewhere in the Whole Earth Catalog is a conversation between Snyder, Brand, Ken Kesey, and Paul Hawken.