
Whole Earth Redux Publication Release Party
Celebrate the release of Whole Earth Redux, a collection of essays offering new perspectives on one of the counterculture’s most influential publications.
Whole Earth Redux Publication Release Party
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Doors: 6:00 PM
Sliding Scale
All Ages
Seated Presentation
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About the Book
Whole Earth Redux is a collection of essays offering new perspectives on the legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog, the publication that defined California’s counterculture. When the Catalog reached the public in 1968, it argued that technology could be personal, living could be communal, and information could be free. That vision not only inspired a generation of back-to-the-land hippies, but has also shaped nearly sixty years of dreams about the future, influencing everyone from Silicon Valley founders and climate activists to space colonists and open-source advocates.
This collection features original writing that appraises the legacy of the Whole Earth project, excavates its deeper histories, argues its importance for understanding the present, and imagines the alternate realities it inspires. Each essay focuses on an artifact from the Whole Earth Index, the first complete online archive of the Whole Earth Catalog and its subsequent imprints produced by Gray Area in collaboration with the Internet Archive and the Long Now Foundation. With Whole Earth Redux, a fuller picture of an iconic publication comes into view—one that defies easy categorization and, though imperfectly and not always consistently, offers such a vision for technology at the scale of individuals, communities, and ecosystems.
Whole Earth Redux is published by Gray Area with generous support from the Incite Institute at Columbia University.
About the Event
Join us in celebrating the release of Whole Earth Redux on February 25 in-person at Gray Area or online. Pick up your copy, meet the contributors, and dive into conversations about the Catalog’s enduring influence.
Speakers
Greg Castillo
Greg Castillo is a Professor of architectural history at the University of California at Berkeley. He was the guest curator of the 2017 Hippie Modernism exhibition at the Berkeley Museum of Art and Film Archive, the author of numerous articles on Bay Area counterculture, and the co-editor of Design Radicals: Spaces of Bay Area Counterculture, forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
Padma Maitland
Dr. Padma Dorje Maitland is the newly-appointed Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of the Art of the Indian Subcontinent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He was previously an assistant professor of architectural history, theory, and criticism California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, prior to which he served in curatorial positions at Stanford’s Cantor Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He recently curated the exhibition After Hope: Videos of Resistance and edited a forthcoming volume Art, Hope, Action: Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times. This summer, he was a research fellow with the American Institue for Sri Lanka Studies, completing research for a manuscript project on the Hindi travel accounts of Rahul Sankrityayan, Anand Kausalyayan, and Yatri Nagarjun.
Jacob Sujin Kuppermann
Jacob is an ecologist, writer, editor, and technologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. Their work focuses on technologies of ecological sensemaking and the interplay between aquaculture systems and wild fish populations.
Ana Tuazon
Ana Tuazon is a writer and educator based in Oakland, California. Her writing on art, culture and social movements has been featured in a number of outlets including Frieze and n+1’s Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism.
Kola Heyward-Rotimi
Kola is a writer living in San Francisco. A list of his publications can be found at https://www.kolaheywardrotimi.com/.
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