Episodes
A six-part counterculture timeline moving from early outsiders and Bohemian refusal to the Beat Generation, 1960s revolution, punk, radical activism, and cyberculture.
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Episode 01 • Origins of Cultural Rebellion
Traces the roots of counterculture back to Bohemia, 19th-century European Romanticism, and early “new vision” thinking. It follows the rebel spirit from 1830s Paris to Greenwich Village, connecting figures such as William Blake, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, John Reed, and Woody Guthrie to the birth of modern counterculture.
Episode 02 • The Beat Generation Gets Hip
Focuses on post–World War II America, the Cold War, repression, and the rise of the Beat Generation. The episode explores Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and the outsiders who helped create a new literary, social, and spiritual rebellion.
Episode 03 • Counterculture and Psychedelic Revolution
Looks at the 1960s explosion of hippies, yippies, youth activism, psychedelic culture, anti-war politics, and expanded consciousness. It presents the counterculture as both a social rebellion and a search for freedom, perception, and democratic change.
Episode 04 • The Punk Rebellion of the 1970s
Covers the punk movement as a raw new form of music, protest, speech, and social criticism. The episode centers on the shockwave created by punk figures and bands, including the Sex Pistols, and frames punk as a direct attack on conformity, class expectations, and cultural politeness
Episode 05 • Radical Environmentalism in the New Age
Moves into ecological rebellion and direct environmental action. It features grassroots environmental resistance, including Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson and Greenpeace actions against nuclear testing in the South Pacific, showing environmental activism as another branch of underground resistance
Episode 06 • The Internet Rebels
Examines the early internet, cyberspace, technology, and the new digital underground. The episode argues that counterculture was shifting from streets, music, and protest movements into networks, code, digital identity, and online communities.