“Borrowing its title from radical poet Hakim Bey’s seminal essay, this survey critically embraces the notion of counterculture, looking at it from different angles: the phenomenon of protests and the role of pleasure; the disintegration of civilized society and psycho-deflation; Detroit techno as a liberation technology. Through these essays, which consider the historicized countercultural experience alongside its more recent embodiments in the digital era, the magazine becomes a Temporary Autonomous Zone in its own right—one in which “the only possible truth is change.””