The Shadow of Ikea-ification Falls On Us All
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hannah Black’s review of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> curated by</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Diedrich Diedrichsen and Anselm Franke</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> considers the legacy of the counterculture-cyberculture that largely shaped my childhood in Northern California. Black reminds us that the “Y” in DIY was not directed at everyone: “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Brand and those like him, the blue planet and, later, the exponential development of IT, meant that otherness and its attendant forms of suffering were just failures to get with the holistic, progressive programme.” This notion of us and them, rich and poor, prepped and not prepped, is the core value of apocalyptic speculation: Only some will survive the deluge so let’s keep out the riff-raff.</span></p>
Authors: Hannah Black
Editors: Simon Worthington