Episode 6
Ice Cream, Whiskey & the CIA
GENEVA, 2023: Evgeny makes one last push in his quest to uncover the truth behind the Environmental Ecology Lab's mysterious ties to the military and the CIA. As he follows the trail, startling revelations come to light, hinting at a shadowy connection between Peter Oser and the US military. Evgeny also exposes the hidden influence of the lab's intellectual godfather, himself an insider of the national security state.
Christian Grote's 1970 film, Telling Fish About Water.
It's stapled to p. 29 of "late 69 - April 70" diary. Warren Brodey Archive. University of Vienna.
Some biographical material on Ervin can be found in CITE "The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor"
See page 27 in this publication here.
His Wikipedia page is here.
EEL Manifesto. File 4. Warren Brodey Archive, University of Vienna.
Christian Grote's 1970 film, Telling Fish About Water.
Christian Grote's 1970 film, Telling Fish About Water.
This is a clip from Kroitor, Roman, dir. The Living Machine. Produced by Tom Daly and Roman Kroitor. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 1962. here.
Clip of McCulloch's interview with CBC available here.
McCulloch's estate can be seen in The Living Machine documentary (1962)
A good journalistic piece on F&T Delicatessen's history and importance is to be found in this 1982 article in The Boston Phoenix ("A Kendall Square Survivor: Time and the F&T Diner Roll On." The Boston Phoenix, June 1, 1982, 36.) here.
On McCulloch's ambivalence towards AI, see Jerome Lettvin's 1985 article "Warren McCulloch and the Origins of AI" (Lettvin, J.Y. "Warren McCulloch and the Origins of AI." Cybernetics, the Magazine 1 (Summer-Fall 1985)).
The CBC interview available on YouTube here.
Johnson, Avery. "Infolding Paul Ryan." Radical Software, Summer 1971.
Warren Brodey—Interviews and Verite Video of Ecological Design, 1969-71. A copy is available in the Raindance Archive at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.
From Christian Grote's 1970 film, Telling Fish About Water.
Rowena Swanson folder, box 24, Warren McCulloch Archive, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA (here).
Swanson to McCulloch letter, November 30, 1964. Rowena Swanson Folder. Box 24. Warren McCulloch Archive, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
The "Bob" in question is Robert C. Lautman, a distinguished architectural photographer.
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Source: CIA website