make love & war | the two cultures of serendipity

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The Two Cultures of Serendipity

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1. WAR: (Cold) War Research in CyberneticsLLearnings

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The Inter-Discipline of CyberneticsLLearnings

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Wiener, the SerendipitologistLLearnings

The Macy Conferences (1946-53)LLearnings

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“Designed to be intellectual free-for-alls, the conferences were radically interdisciplinary. Researchers from a wide variety of fields struggled to understand one another and make connections between others’ ideas and their own areas of expertise. In the process, a concept that may have begun as a model of a particular physical system came to have broader significance…” (Kathrin Hayles)

J.C.R. Licklider, Director of ARPA’s IPTO (1962)

Intergalactic Computer Network

facilitating the idiosyncratic working methods of the scientific community

ARPANET: Inventing the InternetLLearnings

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2. LOVE: Hippies & PsychedeliaLLearnings

CountercultureLLearnings

Culture of SerendipityLLearnings

Psychedelic Exploration & Artistic ExperimentationLLearnings

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3. LOVE MEETS WARLLearnings

Steward BrandLLearnings

‘the bible of my generation’

‘sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along’

Whole Earth CatalogueLLearnings

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Whole Earth CatalogueLLearnings

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Two Cultures of SerendipityLLearnings

Counterculture radical experimentation with technology and social organisation

Military-Industrial-Academic Complex knowledge sharing guided by the idiosyncrasies of academic work rather than quick ‘valorisation' etc.

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Two Cultures of SerendipityLLearnings

No digital revolution without cybernetics & hippies!

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Policy for Serendipitous Innovation?LLearnings

Public Space for Art & Subculture

Massive Public Funding for Academic Idiosyncrasy

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