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STREET FARM.

"A Revolutionary Structure", a 2pp. feature by Graham Caine on "his Eco-House, which he is building in a corner of the playing fields of Thames Polytechnic", in OZ #45 (London: OZ Publications Ink Limited, November 1972).

Folio. 44pp. Ed. Richard Neville. Prints two photographs of The Ecological House (later renamed Street Farmhouse) under construction in Eltham, south London, with accompanying illustrations by fellow member of the eco-anarchist Street Farm collective, Bruce Haggart, and a diagram by Mike Moore based on an original by Graham Caine.

Caine designed the project as both a laboratory and living experiment ("It is, in fact, more than a house, it's an energy system within itself"), as well as intending it as a political statement against consumerism: "The 'environmental crisis' is a crisis of society not a crisis of technology and if one agrees with the theme that the technology of a civilisation is a reflection of its social structure it is not surprising that our civilisation has produced a life killing technology."

Also: Extracts from 'Be Here Now'; "Dr. Leary the Cosmic Whore", an interview with Timothy Leary by Kenneth Kahn in Switzerland on his life in exile, reprinted from the Los Angeles Free Press; Phil Cohen of the London Street Commune on Samuel Fuller's fictional recreation of 144 Piccadilly; Australian poet and author, Bobbi Sykes; the Stoke Newington 8; Oz mail order; "Bingo With Erections" (Madeleine Francis on group sex); artwork by John Hurford, Greg Irons, William Rankin, George Snow, Ed Badajos, and others; more.

Very Good plus.

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