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book launch: fred turner's 'democratic surround'

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    • December 3, 2013 at 11:25 am #512
      erin
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      Hi all,

      If anyone is going to the launch for Fred Turner’s new book this Thursday, let me know. It would be nice to meet other NYCDH members!

      Link & description below:

      “The Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a discussion with Fred Turner and Clay Shirky on Turner’s new book The Democratic Surround, in which he reveals that the decades that brought us the Korean War and communist witch hunts also witnessed an extraordinary turn toward explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive ideas of communication and with them new, flexible models of social order. Surprisingly, he shows that it was this turn that brought us the revolutionary multimedia and the wild-eyed individualism of the 1960s counterculture…”

      http://ipk.nyu.edu/calendar/events/209-2013-12-05/event_details

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