KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Aspects of the Visionary

Analog Audio

Event Type

Lectures and Panel Discussions

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1971.10.13

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

57 min

Dates

1971-10-13 | broadcast
| 1971-10-12 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian talks with David Graham, Gerry Duncan, and Christopher & Teresa Venne about their publication “Attitudes 1”, a futuristic thought collection issued in mid-1971. The publication grew out of the groups interest in the work of British economist, Robert Theobald, but evolved past his theories of a guaranteed annual income, to embrace more Utopian and Spiritual theories, including reincarnation. KPFA’s Gerard Van Der Leun also joins the discussion, which ranges from the radical economic policy of full unemployment, to the use of new technologies to help feed the world, to cybernetic development, to bodiless travel for humans. This is an earnest discussion of the present, and possible future, and is a classic example of what was happening with young philosophers during the 1960s and 70s. This program was recorded on Oct. 12, 1971.

Subjects

Conversations
Politics and culture
Socialism
Economic policy
Poverty
Radicalism
Technology
Cybernetics
Computers and civilization
Reincarnation

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Graham, David
Venne, Christopher
Venne, Teresa
Duncan, Gerry
Van der Leun, Gerard, 1945-