Ecology, Politics, and Counterculture: Sixteen Issues of CoEvolution Quarterly Magazines, 1980 to 1984

CoEvolution Ecology

Archive

CoEvolution Quarterly magazines, 16 issues spanning 1980 to 1984, document the Whole Earth network as it moved from Catalog era tool culture into sustained argument over ecology, social theory, technology, gender, religion, global politics, and emerging information systems. The issues carry Ivan Illich’s “Vernacular Gender,” “Silence is a Commons,” and essays on “Vernacular Values,” Murray Bookchin’s “The Concept of Social Ecology," and other subjects including “Nuclear Power: The Dangers of Normal Pollution,” “How Not to Commit Suicide,” “Ways of Native American Running,” “White America is Predominantly a Viking Culture,” “Force without Firepower,” “Politics & Religion,” “Silence is a Commons,” “Crime and Capitalism in China...” The magazine grew out of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth print culture, where tools, ecological systems, small scale technologies, reader exchange, and resource reviews formed a working intellectual network rather than a conventional literary quarterly. These issues preserve Whole Earth publishing at the point where back to the land practice, bioregional thought, social ecology, feminist debate, religious critique, international political reporting, nuclear politics, all occupied the same editorial field.

Brand, Stewart, Jay Kinney, Art Kleiner, and Whole Earth staff, eds. CoEvolution Quarterly. Sausalito, California: Whole Earth Catalog, 1980 to 1984. Group of 16 issues, Nos. 25, 26, 28 to 35, and 37 to 42, in original pictorial wrappers. The group consists of quarterly magazine issues with illustrated covers, essays, reviews, and letters. Several issues retain mailing labels or retail stickers, preserving evidence of subscription and newsstand circulation outside later library binding.

[1] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 25. Spring 1980.
[2] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 26. Summer 1980.
[3] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 28. Winter 1980.
[4] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 29. Spring 1981.
[5] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 30. Summer 1981.
[6] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 31. Fall 1981.
[7] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 32. Winter 1981.
[8] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 33. Spring 1982.
[9] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 34. Summer 1982.
[10] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 35. Fall 1982.
[11] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 37. Spring 1983.
[12] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 38. Summer 1983.
[13] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 39. Fall 1983.
[14] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 40. Winter 1983.
[15] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 41. Spring 1984.
[16] CoEvolution Quarterly. No. 42. Summer 1984.

This archive documents how 1980s alternative press discussed environmentalism, systems theory, feminist argument, anti nuclear politics, Indigenous knowledge, and emerging information culture were recorded, expressed, and debated. Original pictorial wrappers with handling wear, creasing, rubbing, scattered soiling, mailing labels, price stickers, and edge wear; interiors generally complete and legible from the supplied material. Overall good condition.

Item #23399

Price: $485.00