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Every August for more than a decade, thousands of information technologists and other knowledge workers have trekked out into a barren stretch of alkali desert and built a temporary city devoted to art, technology and communal living: Burning Man. Drawing on extensive archival research, participant observation and interviews, this article explores the ways in which Burning Man's bohemian ethos supports new forms of production emerging in Silicon Valley and especially at Google. It shows how elements of the Burning Man world — including the building of a sociotechnical commons, participation in project-based artistic labor and the fusion of social and professional interaction — help to shape and legitimate the collaborative manufacturing processes driving the growth of Google and other firms. The article develops the notion that Burning Man serves as a key cultural infrastructure for the Bay Area's new media industries.

This article identifies a mode of intellectual influence and popular celebrity that has emerged alongside American computer science and collaborative engineering: "network celebrity." By tracking the tactics and impact of three key intellectual entrepreneurs — Norbert Wiener, Stewart Brand, and Tim O'Reilly — the article traces the rise of this mode of celebrity. It outlines both the new shape of network- driven intellectual fame and the dangers inherent in networked modes of power.

Intro -- Contents -- The Valley on the Hill | Fred Turner -- Photographs and Stories | Mary Beth Meehan -- Cristobal -- Ravi and Gouthami -- Victor -- Warren -- Justyna -- Teresa -- Mary -- Diane -- Abraham and Brenda -- Ariana and Elijah -- Mark -- Imelda -- Richard -- Leslie -- Geraldine -- Jolea -- Melissa and Steve -- Jon -- Gee and Virginia -- Branton and Shirley -- Konstance -- Aurora -- Erfan -- Ted -- Elisa and Family -- Elizabeth -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments.

Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world. It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by race, class, and nationality in complex and contradictory ways. Its beautiful landscape lies atop underground streams of pollutants left behind by decades of technological innovation, and while its billionaires live in compounds, surrounded by redwood trees and security fences, its service workers live in their cars. With arresting photography and intimate stories, Seeing Silicon Valley makes this hidden world visible. Instead of young entrepreneurs striving for efficiency in minimalist corporate campuses, we see portraits of struggle--families displaced by an impossible real estate market, workers striving for a living wage, and communities harmed by environmental degradation. If the fate of Silicon Valley is the fate of America--as so many of its boosters claim--then this book gives us an unvarnished look into the future.

L'idéologie de la Silicon Valley trouve ses origines dans la contre-culture américaine des années 1960, voire le puritanisme : il s'agit toujours de repousser les frontières et de construire des communautés égalitaires, mais en remplaçant le Lsd et la Bible par des systèmes informatiques.