Free Download Iain Boal, Janferie Stone, "West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1604864273, 1604867183 | PDF | pages: 321 | 13.2 mb
In the shadow of the Vietnam War, a significant part of an entire generation refused their assigned roles in the American century. Some took their revolutionary politics to the streets, others decided simply to turn away, seeking to build another world together, outside the state and the market. West of Eden charts the remarkable flowering of communalism in the 1960s and ’70s, fueled by a radical rejection of the Cold War corporate deal, utopian visions of a peaceful green planet, the new technologies of sound and light, and the ancient arts of ecstatic release. The book focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area and its hinterlands, which have long been creative spaces for social experiment. Haight-Ashbury’s gift economy-its free clinic, concerts, and street theatre-and Berkeley’s liberated zones-Sproul Plaza, Telegraph Avenue, and People’s Park-were embedded in a wider network of producer and consumer co-ops, food conspiracies, and collective schemes.
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