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Interesting incidents
Some readings
- Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich (1970)
- Four arguments for the elimination of television by Jerry Mander (1978)
- Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (1970)
- Gyn/Ecology: the metaethics of radical feminism by Mary Daly (1978)
- Human Rights and American Foreign Policy by Noam Chomsky (1978)
- Person/Planet: the creative disintegration of industrial society by Theodore Roszak (1978)
- Post Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (1971)
- Reyner Banham: Historian of the immediate future
- Small is Beautiful by E.F.Schumacher (1973)
- The Money Game by Adam Smith (1976 ed.)
- The Postmodern Condition: a report on knowledge (1979)
- Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich (1973)
Key films to watch
- The Taking of Pelham 123 (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
- The Ice Storm (Ang Lee 1997)
- The Anderson Tapes (Sidney Lumet, 1971)
- The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
- Don't Look Now (Nic Roeg, 1973)
- Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
- Sweeney! (1976)
- Jubilee (Derek Jarman (1977)
- Frost - Nixon Interview, 1977
- Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) (Slow Motion) (Jean Luc Godard, 1980)
Key zeitgeist indicators
- '70s movie rewind
- 1970s Project
- Desert Deathstar and the little Japanese radio
- Desolation Row: deserted housing pods in Taiwan
- French Letraset catalogue from 1977
- Hotel California: LA from the Byrds to the Eagles
- Just look at this list of childhood obsessions to see what I mean
- Life on Mars
- Michael Palin's diaries
- Royksopp - Remind Me - Video
- Semi-Detached by Griff Rhys Jones
- Shut It! The music of The Sweeney
- That 70s Show
- The BBC Test Card Club
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