The proliferation of post-modern religiosity in the late sixties: the case of ’The Process Church of the Final Judgement’: from psychoanalysis as therapy to psychoanalysis as theo... by Marco Toti

“…It may be correctly stated that the counterculture ‘revolution’, which has characterized Western civilization since the sixties, gave rise to further acceleration of what has been called ‘post-modernity’, the most important character of which is the revaluation of the ‘religious’ and the detachment of the category of ‘sacred’—the divinity being generally considered as ‘impersonal’ and in terms of ‘energy’—from traditional religions.…”
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The age of insiders by Helena Grande

“…California and the disappearance of the outside and the conference Documents, Constellations, Prospects, I propose, on the one hand, an analysis about the narratives arising under the Californian counterculture. On the other hand, I address certain theoretical approaches and artistic practices as examples of how we are rethinking the forms of organization, not as independent from an organized system but as an interstice in that same…”
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The "prehistory" of marihuana consumption and growing in Colombia between 1930 and 1960 by Eduardo Sáenz Rovner, Jasson Garry

“…Marihuana consumption did not become widespread in Colombia as the simple result of its increased use as part of the north-American counterculture of the 1960s. Even though marihuana-growing spiraled to satisfy north-American demand at the end of the 1960s and 1970s there was an important market for domestic consumption in Colombia. …”
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Le street art : de nouveaux principes ? by Christophe Genin

“…Is it still meaningfull to talk about rebels, counterculture when the market of art computs its return on investment ? …”
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The Importance of Reggae Music in the Worldwide Cultural Universe by Jérémie Kroubo Dagnini

“…Reggae has influenced societies throughout the world, contributing to the development of new counterculture movements, particularly in Europe, in the USA and Africa. …”
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Violence, Innocence and Redemption in Irvine Welsh’s Chemical Mythos by ZAMFIRESCU ANDREI-CĂLIN

“…Scottish author Irvine Welsh has crafted an internally cohesive cosmology, grounded in mapping a somewhat loosely defined “chemical generation” that helped spearhead a personal brand of anti-Thatcherite counterculture (with an especially heavy focus on the marginalized, disgruntled and boisterous youths of Edinburgh). …”
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(Post)utopian Vineland: Ideological Conflicts in the 1960s and the 1980s by Lovorka Gruic Grmusa

“…It brings controversial aspects of U.S. history and culture into view: the blacklist period in the 1950s, the rise of counterculture and the hippie movement, and the politics of the eighties. …”
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The Body Which is Truly Ours. A Brief Three-Stage Approach to Mass Society Through Photography. by Ana Quiroga Álvarez

“…Thirdly, the work of Linder Sterling has been chosen as an example of British counterculture during the 1970s.…”
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Itinerarios y experimentación en el arte de los años 80. Una cartografía desbordada de espacios del “underground” en Buenos Aires by Marina Suárez

“…The objective of the present work is to reconstruct a cartography of counterculture spaces (in opposition to those of the hegemonic culture) postulating that artists traveled, not only by improvised and precarious sites, but also by official and public institutions.…”
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Rap indígena – uma nova forma de visibilidade e denúncia do indígena no século XXI by Edmar Fonseca das Neves

“…This work looks at indigenous rap as a form of struggle and resistance of traditional peoples. Following is a counterculture current follows, which through a hybrid narrative of the Guarani and Portuguese languages, makes an increasing journey, recruiting new generations to join the struggles for the demarcation of indigenous lands. …”
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Reinventing a territory? Snowboard establishment and development process in the Oisans area by Dorothée Fournier, Michaël Attali, Anne-Marie Granet Abisset

“…Driven by the Californian counterculture, the innovation transmitted by snowboarding allows the Oisans to maintain its touristy character, while transforming the socio-cultural dimension of the territory. …”
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ON THE ROAD: JACK KEROUAC’S EPIC AUTOETHNOGRAPHY by Michael Amundsen

“…Beyond being a touchstone of the counterculture, On the Road is an ethnographic portrait of mid-twentieth-century America. …”
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‘Is This the Real Me? What Is the Real Me?’: Deconstructing Authenticity in Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s <i>Need More Love</i> by David Brauner

“…For much of her career, she was in the shadow of her husband, Robert Crumb, an iconic figure of the counterculture, and any attention she has received for her own work tended to be marred by condescension or predicated on the naïve assumption that, as Susan Kirtley claims, it ‘showcase[s] a raw, unvarnished authenticity’. …”
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D’un genre mal-aimé : le péplum by Christophe Gauthier

“…It is then hardly surprising that some film critics have used the “peplum” as a lever for a counterculture that could disturb film genre hierarchy.…”
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Empty Space, Open Space. Claiming, Reaching and Remembering Common Ground in Urban Squats. Haga in the 1980's by Ann Ighe

“…One conclusion of the paper is that a group of young people, belonging to a counterculture, rebelled both against the modernist conforming political culture of the welfare state and an expected gentrification, partly by adopting and adjusting to the heritage status of an urban neighbourhood. …”
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Technics, Precarity and Exodus in Rave Culture by tobias c. van Veen

“…Without a doubt, the question of rave culture's politics – or lack thereof – has polarized debate concerning the cultural, social and political value of rave culture not only within electronic dance music culture (EDMC) studies, but in disciplines that look to various manifestations of subculture and counterculture for political innovation. It is time for the groundwork of this debate to be rethought. …”
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Green Jack: Naïveté, Frontier and Ecotopia in <i>On the Road</i> by Michael Amundsen

“…However, Kerouac’s “ecotopia of the West” also suggests other ways of living which would influence America’s counterculture and environmental movements.…”
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Dwie drogi – Teatr Laboratorium i The Living Theatre by Joanna Ostrowska

“…The article also analyzes the attitude of Jerzy Grotowski, Julian Beck, and Judith Malina to counterculture and anarchist ideas. The analysis is based on the artists’ texts and the reception of selected performances.…”
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Indywidualne doświadczenie i zmiana społeczna: Herbert Marcuse w interpretacji Marka Fishera a demokratyczna utopia życia codziennego by Leszek Koczanowicz

“…Individual experience and social change: Herbert Marcuse as interpreted by Mark Fisher and the democratic utopia of everyday life In his last lectures, Mark Fisher re-evaluates the work of Herbert Marcuse and the entire tradition of the 1960s counterculture. He emphasizes that social change is not only a matter of objective conditions, but also a transformation of consciousness and culture. …”
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Heinrich Mann's Small town tyrant : the Grammar School Novel as a German prototype of academic fiction by Dieter Fuchs

“…Whereas the Anglo-American campus novel of the 1970s, 80s and 90s features university professors as future-related agents of Western counterculture and free thought, the Grammar School Novel satirizes the German grammar school teacher known as Gymnasialprofessor as a representative of the past-related order of the autocratic German state apparatus from the beginning of the twentieth century. …”
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