The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West
John R. Williams
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 Buddhist temples and lotus ponds. Thus began over a century of the West’s turn toward an Asian aesthetic as an antidote to modern technology.
From the turn-of-the-century Columbian Exhibition to the latest Zen-inspired designs of Apple, Inc., R. John Williams charts the history of our embrace of Eastern ideals of beauty to counter our fear of the rise of modern…
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From the turn-of-the-century Columbian Exhibition to the latest Zen-inspired designs of Apple, Inc., R. John Williams charts the history of our embrace of Eastern ideals of beauty to counter our fear of the rise of modern…
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Оригинальное название: The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West
Дата написания: 24.06.2014
Первая публикация: 24.06.2014
Язык: Английский
Жанры: Философия
Теги: Наука, Кибербуддизм, ТехнологииВсе теги
