From artsjournal.com
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Counterculture
Counterculture is a word used to describe a cultural group whose views run counter to the contemporary social mainstream. Share your thoughts and interesting background reading on counterculture across the 60's, 70's, 80's, and beyond.
"[T]here was the
comedy of seeing a gawky animal enjoy the sacraments of postwar culture. Ed submits to psychoanalysis, goes to costume pageants, orders shoes over the phone. The joke is not just that he acts human; it's the implication that the better part of early-'60s home life could be managed, quite adeptly, by a horse with a vocabulary."...
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In the '60s and early '70S, attorney William Kunstler seemed to be everywhere that mattered: on the bus with Mississippi Freedom Riders; defending the Chicago Eight in the aftermath of bloody riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention; representing prisoners who took over Attica; negotiating a truce between American Indian radicals and the government at Wounded Knee. Famous for his long hair and loquacious summaries, Kunstler was a counterculture...
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From philly.com
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Scott Thill writes on Wired:
Now that the comics industry has overtaken film, its outstanding writers are starting to step up to the biopic bar. Subversive brainiac Grant Morrison is up next, with a dedicated documentary due in time for next year’s Comic-Con International.
“He has an uncanny ability to tell stories that are both accessible and progressively avant-garde,” explained indie director Patrick Meaney, whose untitled Grant Morrison...
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From disinfo.com
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Everyone seems to think it's funny that UC Santa Cruz has a job opening for an official "Grateful Dead Archivist." But it's just the latest example of hippies riding high during the recession, floating on a cloud of groovy breaks. The UC Santa Cruz job is no accident; it was made possible by a donation from the Dead themselves. And it's not just drug bands spreading counterculture good fortune these days: Amid mass journalism layoffs, a new...
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From gawker.com
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