[ih] New Republic Article - "How We Misremember the Internet’s Origins"

Darius Kazemi darius.kazemi at gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 12:35:08 PDT 2019


Maybe a link would have been good but Fred Turner's book "From
Counterculture to Cyberculture" is well-researched good reading on the
topic and makes an excellent case for the sources and existence of that
particular brand of ideology.

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, 7:27 PM Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:

> well, that sure clears things up.....
> :-/
> v
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> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 3:24 PM Darius Kazemi <darius.kazemi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi Brian, quick response inline below--
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>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, 7:15 PM Brian E Carpenter <
>> brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "But when the publicly funded open protocols and infrastructure built by
>> ARPANET entered the Californian crucible of nascent ex-hippie
>> neoliberalism, the windows of possibility narrow."
>>
>> Um, meaningless drivel from someone with a liberal arts degree?
>>
>> Neoliberalism didn't *actually* arise from hippiedom;
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>> I believe you are parsing her sentence wrong. She's not saying "all
>> neoliberalism arose from hippies" but rather is referring to a particular
>> strain of "ex-hippie neoliberalism". The ex-hippie part is a modifier to
>> make it different from garden variety neoliberalism.
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