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The Buddha in the Machine : Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West /

The famous 1893 Chicago World's Fair celebrated the dawn of corporate capitalism and a new Machine Age with an exhibit of the world's largest engine. Yet the noise was so great, visitors ran out of the Machinery Hall to retreat to the peace and quiet of the Japanese pavilion's Buddhis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, R. John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]
Colección:Yale Studies in English
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Asia- as-Technê
  • 2. The Teahouse of the American Book Boston Bindings and Asia- as-Technê, 1890- 1920
  • 3. Mastering the Machine Technology and the Racial Logic of Jack London's Asia
  • 4. Machine/Art Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, and the Chinese Written Character
  • 5. The Technê Whim Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter
  • 6. The Chinese Parrot Technê- Pop Culture and the Oriental Detective Genre
  • 7. Technê- Zen and the Spiritual Quality of Global Capitalism
  • 8. The Meeting of East and West
  • A. Appendix Japanese Edition Books Published in the 1890s
  • B. Appendix Chronology of Futurism/Vorticism in London, 1913- 1915
  • C. Appendix Ezra Pound 1910- 1912 vs. Ezra Pound 1914- 1915
  • D. Appendix Total Quality Management and Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  • E. Appendix Zen and Management/Corporation Studies
  • F. Appendix "Zen and the Art of" in Contemporary Discourse
  • Notes
  • Index