CoEvolution Quarterly

Editor: Stewart Brand

Publisher: Point Foundation

Issues

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  Fall 1984, No. 43

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  Language: English

  The first two pages of the last issue of CoEvolution Quarterly pack a sweet little punch. Enjoy the grace. Featured articles include "Becoming Part of Gaia: One person's attempt to put Gaian principles into practice," Paul Krapfel, "Life as a Stream of Consciousness: Alzheimer's Disease," Sallie Tisdale, and "Indigenous Theater: Plays Without Actors," Maryat Lee.

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  Summer 1984, No. 42

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  Language: English

  This issue's articles features general foreign conflict: "Crime and Capitalism in China," Orville Schell, "Nicaragua's Other War: Indian Warriors vs. Sandinistas," Bernard Nietschmann, and "Nuclear Winter: The Inside Story," Paul R. Ehrlich.

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  Spring 1984, No. 41

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  Language: English

  Do you like funeral customs, elephant poetry, and cults? This is the issue for you, my friend. Featured articles include "Elephants," Heathcote Williams and "The Sacred and the Dead: Autopsies, Embalming, and the Spirit," Sallie Tisdale. Read "Waiting for the Sting" by Donald Factor for your cult fix.

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  Winter 1983, No. 40

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  Language: English

  This issue's featured article is yet another by Ivan Illich "Silence is a Commons: Computers are doing to communication what fences did to pastures and cars did to streets." Enclosures. Policing. The eroding Commons. Illich has predicted the future.

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  Fall 1983, No. 39

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  Language: English

  Politics & Religion. A doozy--features a whole special section! "I was saved from Certain Death by Jim Jones's Sunglasses," Jay Kinney. "Good, Wild, Sacred: The Politics of Reconnecting with Sacred Land" Gary Snyder. And a Symposium on Spiritual Politics, with messages from Jeff Dietrich, Starhawk, and my personal favorite, Ram Dass.

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  Summer 1983, No. 38

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  Language: English

  In this issue: historical empire, 3rd world survival, and a look at ancient vs modern politics of place. Well, the place we all inhabit is earth, and James Lovelock is back with the Gaia Hypothesis in "Daisy World: A Cybernetic Proof of the Gaia Hypothesis." Also includes "Barbarians and Empire," Frederick Fuller and "Reflections by a Farming Woman," Susan Sweitzer Oberst.

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  Winter 1982, No. 36

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  Language: English

  Failure, disaster, distress and becoming a lawyer are a few of the lovely themes in this issue of CoEv. Featuring articles "Toward a Common Covenant: Landscapes and Mind," Wes Jackson. "Mothers in Distress," Polly Harrison. "Male Failure, Female Success: From an Interview with Fred Hapgood." But do not fret, there is also poetry by Wendell Berry.

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  Fall 1982, No. 35

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  Language: English

  This issue features article "The Gift Must Always Move," by Lewis Hyde, on generosity and the re-imagining of the economy. Also, "Gregory Bateson: Old Men Ought to Be Explorers," Stephen Nachmanovitch. I agree.

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  Summer 1982, No. 34

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  Language: English

  In this issue, war and peace. Featuring articles "White America is Predominantly a Viking Culture," Michael Phillips and "Force Without Firepower," Gene Keyes, which explores "a doctrine of unarmed military service: what would be possible if we kept the military but took away their guns."

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  Spring 1982, No. 33.

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  Language: English

  This issue has a very distinct feminist theme, starting with the featured article "Vernacular Gender," by Ivan Illich. Have you ever considered what women add or detract from an economy based on their work? Well, you're about to. Includes other titles such as "Feminism and Pornography," Stephanie Mills and "The Legend of Great Uncle Jim and the Women Behind It All," Wall Baker.

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  Winter 1981, No. 32

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  Language: English

  Theme of the issue? Bioregions! Think "Politics of Place" for ecology. Featuring articles: "Living by Life," Jim Dodge. "The Concept of Social Ecology," Murray Bookchin. This issue dedicates a whole section to Devolution and the Fourth World, which features articles such as "Devolving Beyond Global Monoculture," Peter Berg and "Folkelig" Jon Stewart

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  Fall 1981, No. 31

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  Language: English

  This issue is for lovers of the good green earth, though that is probably every issue of CoEv. Featuring articles: "Mountains as Gods, Mountains as Goals," Thomas Laird. "Low-Rent Himalayas," Kevin Kelly. "Chipko: North India's Tree Huggers," Mark Shepard.

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  Summer 1981, No. 30

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  Language: English

  A seaworthy ambiance in this issue! Featuring articles, "The Politics of Place," Karl Hess and "How Not to Commit Suicide," Art Kleiner (graphic images). Okay, maybe not so seaworthy, besides "Where'ev You Been, Stranger? Disintermediation in the Maritimes," Bryce and Margaret Muir. And somewhat adjacent: "Pond Sculpture," Tim Matson. Honestly, there's a real big economics theme in this issue.

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  Spring 1981, No. 29

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  Language: English

  In this issue, Robert Frank returns to still photography! Americans contemplate space, and there's some back and forth between Lovelock and Margulis on the Gaia Hypothesis.

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  Winter 1980, No. 28

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  Language: English

  "Seeing your neighborhood is part of what this issue is about." Includes articles, such as: "Six Days of Dyin," Mary Catherine Bateson. "L.A. Is a Real Place," Don Ryan. "I Never Thought to See So Large a Land," Kevin Kelly. And also! "Something Good for a Change," Wavy Gravy.

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  Summer 1980, No. 26

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  Language: English

  Featuring article: "Ways of Native American Running," Peter Nabokov and Margaret MacLean. Also featuring: "Vernacular Values," Ivan Illich and "Lesbian Insemination," by Susan Stern.

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  Spring 1980, No. 25

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  Language: English

  Featuring articles "Light Rail: How to Make it Work," Christopher Swan. "The Independent Practice of Science," James Lovelock. "A Man of the Trees," Edward Goldsmith interviewing Richard St. Barbe Baker.

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  Winter 1979, No. 24

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  Language: English

  Featuring a cover by R. Crumb, and cat art--no, really. Also "Factory," by Antler

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  Fall 1979, No. 23

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  Language: English

  Featuring articles "Ocean Arks," John Todd; "Whole Sea Catalog (or something like that)," George Putz and Peter H. Spectre. A very ocean-centric issue, indeed!

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  Summer 1979, No. 22

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  Language: English

  Hot topic of this issue: Treelife. "Skidding," by Will Baker. "Plant a Tree for England," E.F. Schumacher. "Ask the Women," Carol Van Strum.

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  Spring 1979, No. 21

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  Language: English

  This issue features articles on genetic toxicity. "Human Harm to Human DNA," Stewart Brand. "A Guide to Worrying Intelligently About Having a Baby," Susan Stern. "The Organic Movement Meets the Real World," Richard Nilsen. And finally, 63 strange people tell what they are reading--378 strange magazines is what.

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  Fall 1978, No. 19.

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  Language: English

  "This version of Journal for the Protection of All Beings (originally published by City Lights Books in the Sixties as "A Victionary & Revolutionary Review") was conceived when Stewart Brand suggested a rebirth of it disguised as a CoEvolution Quarterly. We aimed at an issue centered on how to liberate mind & body and protect endangered species (including ourselves) from pathogenic industrial civilization.

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  Summer 1976

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  Language: English

  In this issue: Margaret Mead fighting with Gregory Bateson. Jacques Cousteau at NASA. Wendell Berry fighting with CQ. Ursula Le Guin on Menopause. Joni Mitchell in high school. Car Sauer ahead of his time. J.D. Smith with the Hoedads.

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  Spring 1976

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  Language: English

  Includes invited opinion pieces from a variety of voices on the previous issue's special focus on O'Neill's Space Colonies. Featuring opinions from Ken Kesey, Lynn Margulis, Carl Sagan (he prefers "space cities"), Richard Brautigan, Wendell Berry, and Buckminster Fuller, to name a few.

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  Fall 1975

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  Language: English

  Features an article title "The High Frontier" by Gerard K. O’Neill, as well as an interview. O'Neill's space colony designs, precursors to the “O’Neill cylinders,” are depicted decades later in Interstellar (2014). A striking example of speculative engineering crossing into cinematic myth. Also features a conversation with anthropologist and systems theorist, Gregory Bateson and Edmund G Brown, Jr., past Governor of California.

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  Summer 1974

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  Language: English

  Features articles such as "Understanding Wholesome Ehrlich's Guide to the Apocalypse: FOOD," Anne H. and Paul R. Ehrlich. "Gravity Engines and the Diving Engine," Steve Baer. "Bookmaking Access," Robin Rycraft.

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