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Index
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
DIS/ORIENTATION
FOREWORD
PREFACE
PART I
CHAPTER ONE
PROMETHEUS: THE HACKER GOD
LOVING PROMETHEUS
PROMETHEUS AND LUCIFER
THE ANTI-PROMETHEANS VERSUS THE NEW PROMETHEANS
COUNTERCULTURE IS PROMETHEAN IN ESSENCE
ABRAHAM AND THE FIRST DROPOUTS
THE HISTORICAL ABRAHAM
LISTENING TO GOD
THE ICONOCLAST
JEWISH RADICALS
COUNTERCULTURE MYTH MIRRORS COUNTERCULTURE HISTORY
OTHER COUNTERCULTURAL MYTHS
CHAPTER TWO
WHAT IS HIP?
“COUNTERCULTURE” IS UP FOR GRABS
COUNTERCULTURE’S DEFINING PRINCIPLES
NEARLY UNIVERSAL FEATURES OF COUNTERCULTURE
THE PERSONALITIES OF COUNTERCULTURISTS
COUNTERCULTURE AND DRUGS IN PERSPECTIVE
IS COUNTERCULTURE COUNTER ANYMORE?
PART II
CHAPTER THREE
A BUNCH OF GREEK GUYS SITTING AROUND TALKING
THE SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY: THINK FOR YOURSELF AND QUESTION EVERYTHING
COUNTERCULTURAL ELITIST
SMARTYRDOM
SOCRATIC COUNTERCULTURES THROUGH THE AGES
CHAPTER FOUR
THE PHILOSOPHICAL TAOISM OF “LAO TZU” AND “CHUANG TZU”
IGNORE AUTHORITY
BEYOND FREETHINKING
ÉPATER LE BOURGEOIS
GIVING PEACE A CHANCE
WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION
THE TAO FLOWS THROUGH HISTORY
THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION
TAOIST ANARCHISM
THE BOHO DANCE
SEX AND DRUGS
BURNOUTS AND DROPOUTS
PRANKSTERS AND JESTERS
CHAPTER FIVE
NOTHING IS SACRED
REPRESSED ZEN
TURNING JAPANESE
NOTHING REALLY IS SACRED
BEING THERE
ZEN VERSUS AUTHORITY
ZEN BEATS A WESTWARD PATH
CHAPTER SIX
GOD IS LOVE
HIGH ISLAM
WAKING THE SLEEPWALKER WITHIN
OF MASTERS AND AUTHORITY
HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE...
SUFI AT PLAY
THE SUFIC INFECTION
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
CHAPTER SEVEN
LAUGHTER AND DEVOTION
TAKING LIBERTIES
COURTLY COUNTERCULTURE
THE MAGIC OF PROVENCE
TRUE LOVE
SUFI ROOTS
SEX, GOD, OR BOTH?
TROUBATRIXES
TO SIR WITH LOVE: TROUBADOURS AND KNIGHTS
A CHAIN OF HERESIES
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
THE TROUBADOUR REVIVAL
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
NEW PHILOSOPHY OF THE LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
THE FESTIVE COURT OF KING LOUIS XIV
REVOLTING WRITERS
CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
THE BRAZENLY DISDAINFUL BUT WELL-DRESSED M. VOLTAIRE
DESPOTS MAKE THE (CULTURAL) REVOLUTION
SEEDS OF THE NEXT COUNTERCULTURAL REVOLT
THE POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE
CLASS CONFLICT: THE OTHER HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
FRANCE LOSES ITS HEAD OVER THE ENLIGHTENMENT
THE FIRST MEDIA REVOLUTION
CHAPTER NINE
COME TOGETHER: THE FRIENDS
COME TOGETHER: THE IDENTITY
COME TOGETHER: THE MOVEMENT
EMERSON AND THOREAU: PHILOSOPHERS OF CHARACTER, CHARACTERS OF PHILOSOPHY
REVOLUTION: YOU BETTER FREE YOUR MIND INSTEAD?
TRANSCENDENTALISM MEETS THE GANGS OF NEW YORK
DISSIPATION
CHAPTER TEN
CUBISM AND THE AVANT-GARDE BEFORE THE “GREAT WAR”
EXTREME MEASURES: DADA AND THE POSTWAR AVANT-GARDE
JOYCE, POUND, AND BEACH CONSPIRE TO LET THE RIVER OF THE MIND FLOW FREE
INNOCENTS ABROAD: THE LOST GENERATION
DISSIPATION AND AFTERMATH
PART III
CHAPTER ELEVEN
HOWLING THE 1950S AWAKE
DIZZ YAND BIRD
SLOUCHING TOWARD NOWHERESVILLE: THE HIPSTERS
THE ALIENS MEET
THE LOW LIFE
POP GO THE BEATS
THE BEATS FOLLOW THEIR BLISS
SEX AND MAD MAGAZINE AND ROCK ’N’ ROLL
CHAPTER TWELVE
AND IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS AN ALTERED STATESMAN
THEY’D LOVE TO TURN YOU ON
SOUL LEFTISTS
BUILDING THE PERFECT HIPPIE, 1964–1967
WHAT A SHORT FUN TRIP IT WAS
MAGICAL MISERY TRIP
ENLIGHTENMENT NOT GUARANTEED
LEFT BEHINDS: IRREVERENCE AND DROPPING OUT AMONGST THE POLITICOS, 1964–1967
HIPPIES TO THE RESCUE
LET A MILLION FLOWER POWERS BLOOM
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
COUNTERREVOLUTION
GOT TO REVOLUTION
ABBIE’S APOCALYPSE
MOUTHING OFF
WE DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN. IN FACT, WE DON’T NEED MEN!
PEACE GETS A CHANCE
A BANG AND A WHIMPER
THE END
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
OH YOU PRETTY THINGS
DOPE DESPERADOES AND COSMIC COWBOYS
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF NIXON
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE
THEIR KARMA FAILED TO RUN OVER THEIR DOGMA: THE NEW AGE
TOUGH LOVE
STANDING IN THE SHADOWS
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
DAYS OF FUTURE PAST: BRAZIL’S TROPICÁLIA AND OTHER FAR-OUT “OTHERS”
GEEKS AND FREAKS
HACKING IT 1.0: FREE TOTAL ACCESS TO COMPUTERS
HACKING IT 2.0: INFORMATION SHOULD BE FREE
HACKING IT 3.0: MISTRUST AUTHORITY
HACKING IT 4.0: PROMOTE DECENTRALIZATION
STARK RAVING MONDO
THE BOMB: HIP-HOP BLOWS UP BIG
THE MILLENNIAL FRENZY OF THE CORPORATE HIPSTERS
TECHNOCULTURE’S DISCONTENTS: THE NEW HIP LEFT
ANARCHIST SCOLDS
TAG. YOU’RE IT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PERMISSION CREDITS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ALSO BY KEN GOFFMAN (A.K.A. R. U. SIRIUS)
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