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  Whole Earth Review - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CoEvolution Quarterly was founded by gadfly editor Stewart Brand in 1974, with proceeds from The Whole Earth Catalog.
CoEvolution Quarterly was a 1974 off-shoot periodical publication of the Catalog, and was later renamed Whole Earth Review (1985).
Besides having a social focus and interest in personal computing, it was always at the forefront of technological innovation, being the first to publish articles about speculations on space colonization and molecular nanotechnology.
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 CoEvolution Quarterly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CoEvolution Quarterly (later re-named Whole Earth Review) was one of the publishing ventures of the same visionary biologist (with interests in cultures and in art) who launched the Whole Earth Catalog and an early Internet community, still functioning, called the WELL.
In this, he adopted a technique which editor Byron Dobell had suggested to Tom Wolfe, early in the latter’s career, a method which had started a whole literary genre called “the new journalism” known for its intimacy and impact.
The Quarterly was one of the journals born in the 1970s that, in effect, bridged the gap of what has been called the two cultures (science and the humanities).
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 Kevin Kelly -- Chapter 5: Coevolution
Scientists are cataloguing the elemental components for adaptation, induction, intelligence, evolution, and coevolution into a periodic table of life.
Perhaps the most useful lesson of coevolution for "wannabe" gods is that in coevolutionary worlds control and secrecy are counterproductive.
Coevolution can be seen as two parties snared in the web of mutual propaganda.
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 CoEvolution Quarterly -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
A 1972 edition of the Catalog sold 1.5 million copies, winning a U.S. (additional info and facts about National Book Award) National Book Award, and its influence was widespread, especially perhaps in promoting (additional info and facts about appropriate technology) appropriate technology.
Brand invited reviews of books and "tools" from experts in specific fields, to be approached as though they were writing a letter to a friend.
The Quarterly was one of the journals born in the 1970s that, in effect, bridged the gap of what has been called (additional info and facts about the two cultures) the two cultures (science and the humanities).
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 Art Kleiner: Coevolution Quarterly
The magazine CoEvolution Quarterly was founded by Stewart Brand in 1974, with proceeds from The Whole Earth Catalog.
I was privileged to be part of it, beginning in 1980, when I signed on to edit the Next Whole Earth Catalog (1980, Random House); I stayed on through 1985 full-time, in part as Editor of the quarterly.
This article was originally published in 1981, for CoEvolution Quarterly -- my first major article, and one that (I think) still rings true two decades later.
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 Quarterly Tax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The magazine moved from quarterly to monthly publication in the 1970s, still concentrating on only fashion and style and attracting a primarily gay readership.
CQ was founded in 1945 by Nelson Poynter and his wife, Henrietta Poynter, with the aim of providing a link between local newspapers and the complex politics within Washington D.C. CQ has the largest news team covering Capitol Hill, with more than 100 reporters, editors and researchers.
''The Washington Quarterly'' is a journal of international affairs, analyzing global strategic changes and their public policy implications, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the MIT Press.
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 Center for Conservation Biology
Coevolution: patterns of legume predation by a lycaenid butterfly.
Coevolution of the checkerspot butterfly Euphydryas chalcedona and its larval food plant Diplacus aurantiacus: Larval response to protein and leaf resin.
The coevolution of Euphydryas chalcedona butterflies and their larval host plants.
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 Paula Thornton: ROI = Really Obtuse Indicators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Organisms cooperate and compete in a dance of coevolution, thereby becoming an exquisitely tuned ecosystem….Somehow, by constantly seeking mutual accomodation and self-consistency, groups of agents manage to transcend themselves and become something more…there is a wide variety of models….
Says the biologist Richard Lewontin: “The environment is not a structure imposed on living beings from the outside, but is in fact a creation of those beings.” This is what biologists call co-evolution.
Says Steward Brand, foudner of a magazine called CoEvolution Quarterly and an organization called the Global Business Network, “Evolution is adapting to meet one’s needs.
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 Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown
*CoEvolution Quarterly,* which started in 1974, was never a widely popular magazine.
Despite periodic outbreaks of millenarian fervor, *CoEvolution Quarterly* failed to revolutionize Western civilization and replace leaden centuries of history with bright new Californian paradigms.
*CoEvolution Quarterly* folded its teepee, replaced by *Whole Earth Software Review* and eventually by *Whole Earth Review* (the magazine's present incarnation, currently under the editorship of virtual-reality maven Howard Rheingold).
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 Amazon.ca: Books: News That Stayed News 1974-1984 (Ten Years of Co-Evolution Quarterly)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Founded in 1974 by the staff of the Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly lasted 10 years as a small circulation magazine whose ecological, post-'60s banner allowed diversity.
CoEvolution Quarterly, a magazine of alternative opinion, flourished for a decade, then became part of the Whole Earth Review.
This collection represents the publication's "most lasting work," some 41 items on all sorts of subjects, including salons, the earth's atmosphere, mice, basketball, the arms race, suicide, and a story of lost young love.
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 Atomic Razor: My Favourite Painting
There is even the entire text of the CoEvolution Quarterly book on space colonies.
CoEvolution Quarterly became The Whole Earth Review and then Whole Earth Publication was suspended in 2003 before issue 111could be printed.
From CoEvolution Quarterly, I learnt the meaning of the word vanilla in the context of BDSM.
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 Ivan Illich: Vernacular Values
CoEvolution Quarterly is ideally suited for facsimile reproduction.
Neither the author nor the publisher have any objection to the non-commercial reproduction by any means of these pages, as long as each of the three parts of this article is reproduced in its entirety and without editorial changes or additions.
No, the modernized poor are those whose vernacular domain, in speech and in action, is most restricted - those who get least satisfaction out of the few vernacular activities in which they can still engage.
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Incipit: "In a sensational interview after his escape from Hawaii, Swami Nityananda reveals how he was forced to abdicate and abducted from the country by Ganeshpuri's gang of foreign devotees." HARD-COPY SOURCE #3.
Published abstract: "The last few years of Swami Muktananda's life saw a proliferation of abuses which are only now coming to light.
CoEvolution Quarterly independently contacted his major sources and confirmed the authenticity of their quotes and allegations." HARD-COPY SOURCE #4.
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 "That Deep Romantic Chasm": Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture
Stewart Brand, for example, created and edited the countercultural compendium, the Whole Earth Catalog, and his Coevolution Quarterly was guest edited by the Black Panthers in 1974 (Kleiner, 1986, p.
Yet Coevolution Quarterly eventually evolved into a computer software catalog, and today Brand is known as a technology booster, a fellow traveler with the editorial staff of Wired Magazine which not long ago featured Newt Gingrich on its cover.
In the fall of 1984, the Whole Earth Software Review and Coevolution Quarterly were combined and the joint publication was named Whole Earth Review.
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 Ivan Illich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Energy and Equity: The entire text of this influential book, inspired by the energy crisis of the 1970s, where Ivan Illich argues that it is essential to limit speed.
Vernacular Values: This series of articles from CoEvolution Quarterly is the basis of most of Ivan Illich's book Shadow Work.
Silence Is A Commons: In this article from CoEvolution Quarterly, Ivan Illich takes on the electronic media.
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 ipedia.com: Stewart Brand Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Stewart Brand is the founder of the following institutions: The Whole Earth Catalog in 1968 CoEvolution Quarterly in 1974, with proceeds from The Whole Earth Catalog.
CoEvolution Quarterly in 1974, with proceeds from The Whole Earth Catalog.
The Long Now Foundation in 1996, with computer scientist Danny Hillis— one of the Foundation's projects is to build a 10,000 year clock, the Clock of the Long Now.
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 DEBATE3.HTML
The trouble is that those were not meant as parting words, and I think parting words should be offered and understood as such.
I believe that The CoEvolution Quarterly is useful to the extent that it is impious and acutely observing and a forum.
If The CoEvolution Quarterly can be run as a forum for this debate rather than as a mouth-piece for the "winning" side, then this parting can be mended.
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 Ecotopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The impressive, environmentally benign technology Callenbach described in Ecotopia was based on research findings published in such journals as Scientific American.
The author's story was woven using the fiber of technologies, lifestyles, folkways, and attitudes that were being reflected (from real-life experience) in the pages of, say, the Whole Earth Catalog and its successor CoEvolution Quarterly, as well as being depicted in newspaper stories, novels and films.
Callenbach's main ideas for Ecotopian values and practices were based on actual experimentation taking place in the American West.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Ecotopia.htm   (585 words)

  
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I've crossposted this to alt.co- evolution because it's something that CoEvolution Quarterly recommended years ago and I even sold for a while.
I am currently studying "coevolution" refers back to the CoEvolution Quarterly, now called Whole Earth Review -- a magazine published by the Point Foundation which also produces the Whole Earth Catalogs.
"Coevolution" in the biological sense is the way in which evolution works to shape different organisms interactively.
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 Whole Earth Review (Promo) Jay Walljasper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Founder Eric Utne kept a complete run of the magazine within arm's reach as he launched Utne Reader, frequently grabbing a copy for inspiration and repeatedly quoting editor Stewart Brand.
Whole Earth, which emerged from the best-selling Whole Earth Catalog in 1974 but was titled CoEvolution Quarterly until 1985, was a bible of sorts for alternative thinkers of many stripes.
It was a place in print where Luddites and computer zealots, ecological radicals and mossback conservatives, renewable energy technicians and spiritual searchers could mingle and exchange ideas.
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Between 1974-85, Brand founded, edited, and published CoEvolution Quarterly, which continued as the Whole Earth Review (1985), then later as the Whole Earth Magazine.
During this time, Kinney was an editor and illustrator for the CoEvolution Quarterly.
One issue which generated a fair number of responses was the issue of whether or not to publish two versions of the CoEvolution Quarterly, referred to in the correspondence as the "bold" and "regular" versions.
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 THE HACKER CRACKDOWN - THE CIVIL LIBERTARIANS
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This information is then entered on the PSAP profile sheets and reviewed quarterly for changes, additions and deletions.
EFF was also publishing EFFector, a quarterly printed journal, as well as EFFector Online, an electronic newsletter with over 1,200 subscribers.
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 FunkNtro.htm: Genetic Hacking
What now remains compared with what then existed is like the skeleton of a sick man, all the fat and soft earth having been wasted away, and only the bare framework of the land being left.
I first became interested in Gaia by reading Daisy World: A Cybernetic Proof of the Gaia Hypothesis published in Coevolution Quarterly 38:66 (1983) [now Whole Earth Review], in which James Lovelock showed that active planetary regulation of temperature and atmospheric content required neither foresight nor planning by life.
Later on, I became aware of the Atmospheric Water Battery, in which trees, by transpiring large amounts of water into the air during the morning, cause rain to fall in the afternoon and evening, and store fresh water in an ecos, preventing it from running off into the sea.
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 Amazon.com: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Houses, he notes, respond to families' tastes, ideas, annoyance and growth; and institutional buildings change with expensive reluctance and delay; while commercial structures have to adapt quickly because of intense competitive pressures.
Creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and founder of CoEvolution Quarterly (now Whole Earth Review), Brand splices a conversational text with hundreds of extensively captioned photographs and drawings juxtaposing buildings that age well with those that age poorly.
A hippy elder statesman (once one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters), Brand argues that a building can ``grow'' and should be treated as a ``Darwinian mechanism,'' something that adapts over time to meet certain changing needs.
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 Footprints Literacy 8.
Avital, T. Symmetry: The Connectivity Principle of Art, Symmetry: Culture and Science.(The Quarterly of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry), Vol.
(The Quarterly of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry).
Bateson, G. The Pattern Which Connects, The CoEvolution Quarterly, Summer (1978), 9.
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wrote this in 1979, in the original version of this article (published first in a pamphlet at the University of California at Berkeley, and then in CoEvolution Quarterly):
For every Little Review or Poetry with a lasting reputation, hundreds of small press magazines appear and disappear with little impact on the culture.
Home > articles > CoEvolution Quarterly > page10
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 Whole Earth Review: Based on a true story - high school teacher's attempted lesson on fascism gone awry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Uniform behavior, salutes, tattling, their freedom for the promise of being superior to their classmates.
The first public account of The Third Wave appeared in CoEvolution Quarterly (Spring 1976).
FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION of "Take As Directed" in CoEvolution Quarterly, I was contacted by film, TV, and a host of dreamers and schemers.
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 John Newmeyer Essays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
He has flourished in two careers: as an epidemiologist at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic in San Francisco and as the proprietor of Heron Lake Vineyard and Winery in Napa.
He is the author of 90 published works, mostly in professional journals but also in Harvard Magazine, The People's Almanac #2 and CoEvolution Quarterly.
Newmeyer also has hitched freight trains rides, worked on a kibbutz, trekked in the Himalayas, invented and manufactured a board game, made a nearly-successful run for Congress, and travelled to the seven continents.
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 Fred Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
A former journalist, he has written extensively on collective memory and the mass media and is the author of Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (Anchor/Doubleday, 1996; second edition forthcoming).
His dissertation concerned the role of Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalog, and CoEvolution Quarterly in the development of contemporary ideologies of information.
In the mid-1990s, as the Internet and the World Wide Web went public, a utopian near-consensus about their likely social impact seemed to bubble up out of nowhere.
www.com.washington.edu /rccs/ford/bios/turner.html   (371 words)

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