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The Buddha in the machine : art, technology, and the meeting of East and West /
The writers and artists described in this book are joined by a desire to embrace 'Eastern' aesthetics as a means of redeeming 'Western' technoculture. The assumption they all share is that at the core of modern Western culture there lies an originary and all-encompassing philosop...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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[New Haven, CT] :
Yale University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Yale studies in English.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.