Having begun reading "Post-Scarcity Anarchism" by Murray Bookchin, I might add it to my "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading" doc.
📄 Reading list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8/edit?tab=t.0
📚 Book: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book
If you’ve finished the book, I’d love feedback or extra recommendations for my doc, bearing in mind I tend to approach things from a more syndicalist perspective.
Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco
https://www.fieldnotes.nautilus.quest/p/the-kids-who-ran-away-to-1960s-san
#HackerNews #KidsRunningAway #1960sSanFrancisco #YouthCulture #Counterculture #Movement #Adventure
How the music of the revolutionary band MC5 became the soundtrack for American subculture https://en.vijesti.me/bbc/784424/How-the-music-of-the-revolutionary-band-MC5-became-the-soundtrack-for-American-subculture #counterculture #subculture #music #musicians #MC5
Dive into the mind of Wiley Brooks, the "Original Breatharian." A former music producer for Hendrix & Led Zeppelin shares his radical journey into fasting, sun-gazing, and superhuman strength—challenging everything we believe about food, energy, and longevity: https://costaricainfolink.com/en/the-original-breatharian-wiley-brooks/
#WileyBrooks #Breatharian #Counterculture #Fasting #Longevity #WeirdHistory #OralHistory #BeliefSystem
San Francisco Names Yet Another Street After a Legendary Photographer https://petapixel.com/2025/12/01/san-francisco-names-street-after-photographer-jim-marshall/ #musicphotographer #counterculture #sanfrancisco #jimmarshall #Rocknroll #1960s #1970s #News
Horror Hospital (1973)
Produced in 1973. Directed by Antony Balch (who worked extensively with William S. Burroughs). Starring Michael Gough, Robin Ask, Vanessa Shaw. A pair of friends on a british rail trip soon find themselves in a secluded mansion with a slew of bizarre characters and an even more bizarre secret.
Robin Askwith (just prior to his shift into a sex comedy franchise) is a stressed out singer with a pop group. He decides to go for some R&R at a country retreat. He hooks up with Vanessa Shaw on the train journey in, and once they arrive at the retreat they find it's a bizarro world inhabited by mute bikers, lobotomised robots, a malignant dwarf and a mad doctor (Michael Gough) in a wheelchair!
Authenticity over approval. Cracked voice. Rough edges. Stay true to yourself and you will realise that is the best choice you could have made for you.
#SelfLove #CounterCulture
Alice seems pretty cool, ngl
#1969 exploitation film about a college girl who gets "turned on" in more ways than one by her #lesbian teacher.
https://archive.org/details/1969JohnDonneALICEINACIDLAND
#LSD #psychedelics #hippie #california #freelove #nudity #nudism #naked #counterculture #totalliberation
Motor-Cycle is the debut album by singer-songwriter Lotti Golden, released on Atlantic Records in 1969. The album is memoir of Golden's immersion in the late Sixties counterculture of New York's Lower East Side and East Village, written in music and lyrics because, according to Golden, "a book is too flat."
In a retrospective review, Path of Tiny Mix Tapes said that Motor-Cycle "plays like a musical, transporting the listener to the late '60s underground," adding: "Golden gets help on Motor-Cycle from an impeccably arranged Atlantic Records session band... with a flawless, swinging rhythm team. Then, at key moments, the curtain goes up and they've got rows of saxes, trumpets, vibes... and you begin to realize that this is not the same song and dance... it's as if The Velvet Underground recorded for Motown." - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exrmidffabw&list=PLkuoFKpDQxFtneVY-2-J45y6_FKbRjKiR&index=1
#LottiGolden #Counterculture #Music #EastVillage #LowerEastSide
Woodstock Dreams in the Hall of Bones
Two visitors to the Natural History Museum in London admire the huge skeleton in the main hall.
The Natural History Museum’s most famous skeleton used to be “Dippy,” a diplodocus that dominated that main hall for 112 years. In 2017, it was replaced with a blue whale skeleton (which is what you see here). Dippy wasn’t actually a real skeleton though; it was a composite cast made from plaster and steel. The irony? For over a century, visitors thought they were seeing an actual dinosaur when they were really looking at a rather elaborate replica.
Apertureƒ/1.8CameraSM-G998BFocal length6.7mmISO50Shutter speed1/100s#architecture #bandMerchandise #blueWhaleSkeleton #britishCulture #counterculture #denimJackets #familyVisit #festivalCulture #generationalConnection #glassCeiling #gothicArchitecture #heritageTourism #londonLandmarks #museumPhotography #musicHeritage #naturalHistoryMuseumLondon #photo #photography #streetPhotography #vintageAesthetic #woodstock
AQUARIUS Theater
July 21 1969
Hollywood CA
Photographers
Ed Caraeff
Sam Emerson
Craig Allan Folkes
James Fortune (L.A. Free Press)
Robert Haimer (Amateur)
Frank Lisciandro
Bill Mumy (Amateur)
James Roark (L.A. Herald-Examiner)
Jay Thompson
All General Admission tickets for these performances are $2.00
Ode to L.A. While Thinking of Brian Jones, Deceased is printed and distributed exclusively at this performance
Approx. 1,200 in attendance during both performances
Jim is unrecognizable to the audience with a full beard
During a break in the late show Jim leaves the stage and re-appears on a balcony
Jim shouts poetry/dialogue from the balcony then swings to the stage from a curtain rope
Date: Vintage - mid-1990's
Title: 'Dare To Be Different' by Unknown
Theme: Anti-bullying self-advocacy self-expression
Medium: Dalmatian photoshoot print
#antifa #punk #antifascist #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #antibullying #selfadvocacy #photography #dogs #dalmatian #rainbow #photo #culture #fashion #vintage #1990s #90s #aesthetic #fyp #fypシ #color #fun #affirmation #trans #nonbinary #gender #selfexpression #counterculture
Hype for the Future 16A: The Countercultural Movements of America
The most notable and interesting countercultural movements in the United States of America are largely identified by LGBTQIA+ culture and heritage traits. While LGBTQIA+ have existed long before such identities have become normalized in society, the historical shunning and taboos continue to linger into the modern day in the vast majority of spaces within the nation. novaTopFlex aspires to network with countercultural hubs, including hubs of movements outside the LGBTQIA+ and intersecting […]#BookTour: Part of the Solution, by Elana Michelson @partnersincr1me #PartoftheSolution #ElanaMichelson #murder #mystery #counterculture #TorchflameBooks #excerpt #giveaway #PICT
PART OF THE SOLUTION: A MYSTERY by Elana Michelson November 10 - December 5, 2025 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: "Michelson's first-rate mystery novel...makes for addictive reading." –Foreword Clarion Reviews It's 1978, and Jennifer Morgan, a sassy New Yorker, has escaped to the counterculture…
I also forgot how much fun people watching can be. I think my cerulean blue mask makes people in the SL,UT more comfortable with me. #CounterCulture
That contrasts with my Havasu experience, where I think my #genderfuq unicorn nature combined with a colorful mask was a bit shocking to the locals. They were a little nicer when I wore a boring mask color.
Still don't wanna stay here. Or there. Or anywhere in particular for too long. #nomad
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This reminds me of a book about the #socialist faction of inter-war #Germany #FKK and #nudism led by Adolf Koch titled 'Wir sind nackt und nennen uns Du,' or in English, 'We are naked and call each other (the intimate, informal) You.' It's a pretty great look at the Weimar #counterculture and it's destruction by #Fascism
The famous French 10-part seven-hour silent film Les Vampires (1915, re-released on DVD in 2005) is about an Apache gang named "the Vampires". Emilio Ghione's La Mort series of films—of which only I topi grigi (The grey rats, 1918), Anime buie (Dark souls, 1916) and a fragment of Dollari e Fracks (Dollars and dinner jackets, 1919) still exist—was about the adventures of a 'noble' Apache in the Parisian underworld and further afield.
The undisputed master of the silent-era espionage serial, Louis Feuillade (FANTÔMAS) crafted films with labyrinthine plots and unforgettable characters that influenced countless generations of filmmakers. Comprised of ten episodes and clocking in at nearly seven hours in duration, LES VAMPIRES is an unqualified masterpiece. It follows journalist Philippe Guérande (Édouard Mathé) in his efforts to expose a vast criminal organization known as the Vampires. Joined by a comical sidekick, Mazamette (Marcel Lévesque), and often competing against a rival gang lord (Fernand Herrmann), Guérande dethrones a succession of the Vampires’ Grand Masters. But most evasive of all is the Vampires’ muse, a seductive assassin who performs her job with deadly grace: Irma Vep, played by the unforgettable Musidora.
The gun depicted is a "French Apache" gun. This is a revolver, knuckleduster and fold out dagger!
Les Apaches was a Parisian Belle Époque violent criminal underworld subculture of early 20th-century hooligans, night muggers, street gangs and other criminals. They used to rob and frequently kill people. Also shown is Betty May, of Tiger Woman fame, a one time member of the Apache's. Betty May travelled to Sicily with her third husband Frederick Charles Loveday (later Raoul Loveday) who had become an acolyte of Aleister Crowley. In the third image Apaches battle Paris Police on 14 August 1904.
The Apaches also developed a semi-codified collection of "tricks" used in mugging and hand-to-hand combat. The most famous was the coup du Père François, a tactic by which a victim was stalked by several Apaches. One garroted the victim from behind while taking him piggyback to prevent struggling; another Apache was assigned the job of searching through the victim's pockets for any valuables, while another served as a lookout. Although the intent was to only incapacitate, death from prolonged strangulation could still occur.
The existence of Apaches as a semi-organised gang-culture in Paris during the early 1900s was exaggerated in media coverage, although it did reflect the reality of a higher proportion of young males among the city population than elsewhere in France. With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the wholesale mobilisation of this generation for military service led to a reduction of violent street crime and the subsequent fading of Apache mythology. After 1919 the incidence of urban violence returned to pre-war levels but without such symbols supposedly favoured by Apaches, such as the wearing of coloured sashes or the carrying of specially designed weapons.
