I really enjoyed the "You're as Cold as Ice" segment of This American Life's "Mistakes Were Made" show - can anyone recommend other documentaries / books / articles about the creepy / gothic side of California counterculture and technofuturism in the 60s and 70s?
posted by ryanshepard on Apr 23, 2009 - 9 answers

Asking for a friend: Where can I, a mainstream whitebread exemplar, find useful info about counterculture movements that doesn't read like dry scholarship and actually gives one a feel for how it works? [more inside]
posted by beaucoupkevin on Dec 4, 2007 - 16 answers

Cyberpunk, hacker culture, BBSs and alt.2600 newsgroups... have they really all gone? Is it really all virus breeders and script kiddies now? What has happened to the cyberpunk movement - I keep reading it has died and post-cyberpunk doesn't seem to be doing much. What is the current counterculture on the net? Please don't tell me it's goths weeping on their keyboards? [more inside]
posted by Skyanth on Jan 13, 2006 - 13 answers