Movement | Years | Reacting to | Counter-paradigm | Characteristics |
Wartime/post-war liberalism | mid-1930s-late 1950s | “Authoritarian Personality” | “Democratic Personality” | Multiculturalism, openness, participation |
Post-war avant-garde | 1942-1960 | Liberal corporatism | Active experience | Spontaneity, participation, self-organization, Eastern philosophy |
New Left | 1960-1972 | Liberalism corporatism, Marxist-Leninism | Authentic experience | Direct democracy, horizontalism, spontaneity, everyday militancy |
“Psychedelic” counterculture | 1964-1972 | Modernity | Non-modern self | Everyday experimentation, communalism, openness, Eastern philosophy |
Punk | 1976-1979 | Corporatization | Negation, refusal | Rejection, provocation, amateurism, D.I.Y., anger |
Industrial | 1978-late 1980s | Homogenization, informationalization | Appropriation, modification | Provocation, D.I.Y, fetishism, alterations to human form |
Cyberpunk | 1981-mid 1990s | Corporatization, informationalization | Posthumanism, Appropriation | Digitalization, D.I.Y., distributed networks, computer-based militancy |
Hacker subculture | 1984-mid 1990s | Closed information | Open information | Anonymity, digitalization, secrecy, distributed networks |
Global Justice Movement | 1994-2001 | Globlization | Alter-globalization | Direct democracy, aestheticization, distributed networks, communication |
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