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RADICAL SOFTWARE #4 (NY: Raindance Corporation, Summer 1971).
Ed. Beryl Korot & Megan Williams. Tabloid format, stapled. 79pp. Wraparound cover art designed by Ant Farm, printed in blue and orange. Illustrated.
The issue was put together "in three locations by three separate groups of people" and contains a dense compilation of reports and proposals from Canadian and California-based video and alternative media groups.
Contents include a 4pp. article, "Biotopology 1972", by Warren Brodey (a Canadian psychiatrist and pioneer in family therapy who had previously done related work in cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and interactive computer systems); two pieces with a media ecology theme, "The Nutritive Context" by Frank Gillette and "Infolding Paul Ryan" by Avery Johnson; "Videotape Dance Therapy" by Louis Jaffe; "New Age Communications Manual" by Videofreex; Ant Farm; "Acid Programming", a review of John Lilly's book, 'Human Biocomputer'; a "Game" by Marc LeBrun (Portola Institute), ending with the question "What ever happened to Tesla's last papers, anyway?" (a reference to the US government's seizure of Nikola Tesla's files after his death in 1943; a year later LeBrun drew the cover for and contributed to the first issue of Bob Albrecht's People's Computer Company Newsletter); more. Includes a section detailing the financial costs of the current issue and the previous issue, a transparency adopted by the DIY post-punk scene later in the decade.
Cover worn, detached from staples and split along spine into two halves; contents slightly edge-frayed, with old central horizontal crease; Fair to Good overall.
