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Whole Earth Redux

As the Whole Earth Catalog’s almost mythical status has grown in popular imagination, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, copies of the Catalog have become harder and harder to access. 

When the original Whole Earth Catalog reached the public in 1968, it presented a version of do-it-yourself individualism that would come to convene techno-utopian cybernauts and back-to-the-land hippies alike. After launching the Whole Earth Index—the first complete digital archive of the Whole Earth Catalog and its subsequent imprints—Gray Area is turning its attention to Whole Earth Redux, an edited volume inviting contemporary writers to critically and creatively respond to the ideas and artifacts contained within the Index.

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Whole Earth Catalog, Fall 1968
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CoEvolution Quarterly, Fall 1974
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Whole Earth Catalog 30th Anniversary, Winter 1998
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The Last Supplement to The Whole Earth Catalog, March 1971
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Whole Earth Catalog, Spring 1970
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Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age
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The Whole Earth Index marks the first step in surfacing the breadth of knowledge contained within the publication’s archive. With the support of the Left Field Fund, Whole Earth Redux will take this effort even further by publicizing diverse viewpoints on what the Whole Earth legacy offers our contemporary moment. This publication will feature original research-driven nonfiction essays and fictive or poetic responses to the materials in the archive. 

These works will generate novel insights into Whole Earth’s role in shaping contemporary technoculture, as well as what underexplored potential or cautionary tales the Index reveals for reimagining the role technology plays in constructing (counter)cultures.

Get involved

Interested in contributing to Whole Earth Redux? Find out more at Gray Area's website.

About the Team

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    Hannah Scott hannah.scott@grayarea.org

    Hannah Scott is a researcher, writer, and curator based in San Francisco. In her role as Research Manager at Gray Area, she develops programs that assemble interdisciplinary collectives of practitioners to develop new prototypes, ideas, and experiences that make critical interventions in social and technological issues. For Hannah, looking toward artists who responded to computation as it entered public consciousness has always been instructive for better understanding the forces that have shaped our present — toward this end, Hannah focused her Stanford University honors thesis on the 1960s environmental art group Pulsa, stewarded the preservation of media theorist Gene Youngblood’s personal papers, and regularly writes about technology and culture for publications like Reboot.

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