Talk:Californian Ideology

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Examples of people using the phrase "Californian ideology" without referring directly to the article that coined the phrase:

• "The alignment with the Californian Ideology and its ideologems like hippie-lifestyle and free market-liberalism is to be observed throughout the whole issue, but the point is, that Wired-UK cannot become a simple imitation of its US counterpart, it has to be distinctive even to raw Californian Ideology which is - for the UK market - simply indigestible without some English rearticulations." [1]
• "The European avant-garde - and its imitators - could never openly support the free market fundamentalism of the Californian ideology. Yet, as TJs cut 'n' mix, the distinctions between right and left libertarianism are blurring. On the one hand, the Californian ideologues claim that a heroic minority of cyber-entrepreneurs is emerging from the fierce competition of the electronic marketplace. On the other hand, the Deleuzoguattarians believe that this new elite consists of cool TJs and hip artists who release subversive 'assemblages of enunciation' into the Net." [2]
• "Such - utopian thinking finds its origin in what is called Californian Ideology, steeped in the optimism of dot-com-era Silicon Valley, in California, USA. Even though such optimist movements date back to the 1960s under the term of New Left (Worldwide), its major impact has only begun with the advent and rise of the Internet. The Californian Ideology has generated an integration of market economy and communitarism in response to the economic liberalism of the American New Right. By means of the Internet, the technological determinism that is inherent to this movement has progressed enormously. Since the early 1990s a new virtual class has appeared on the scene, attempting to reshape the world with a combination of digital individualism and virtual-community building." [3]

The original article has been cited in various peer-reviewed journals (for example, [4] and [5]), and was described as "much-discussed" in this 1997 piece from Salon.com. Jd4v15 (talk) 23:35, 30 March 2008 (UTC)