R. John Williams is assistant professor of English at Yale University, teaching courses in literature, film, and media studies.
Winner of the 2012 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication.
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 technological systems. In a dazzling work of synthesis, Williams examines Asian influences on book design and department store marketing, the commercial fiction of Jack London, the poetic technique of Ezra Pound, the popularity of Charlie Chan movies, the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the design of the latest high-tech gadgets. Williams demonstrates how, rather than retreating from modernity, writers, artists, and inventors turned to traditional Eastern technê as a therapeutic means of living with—but never abandoning—Western technology.
發表於2024-11-26
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圖書標籤: 藝術 STS 設計 英文 美學 技術 學術 哲學
藝術史研究中的技術取嚮的另一本著作,建立在海德格爾關於techne的理論之上。關於craftmanship的研究熱持續上升。techno研究中的去東方主義亦是此書的關鍵詞之一。
評分最早是在圖書館裏誤打誤撞看到這本書,藉走放在傢裏一直沒有讀。現在終於讀瞭,著實相見恨晚。每一個案例具體形象,行文流暢又有說服力,最後一章讀起來簡直不能更暢快。The east and the west is never really apart, the machine is never an alienation, but a mirror to humanity.If we see a buddha in a machine, because the humanity needs a buddha.
評分最早是在圖書館裏誤打誤撞看到這本書,藉走放在傢裏一直沒有讀。現在終於讀瞭,著實相見恨晚。每一個案例具體形象,行文流暢又有說服力,最後一章讀起來簡直不能更暢快。The east and the west is never really apart, the machine is never an alienation, but a mirror to humanity.If we see a buddha in a machine, because the humanity needs a buddha.
評分最早是在圖書館裏誤打誤撞看到這本書,藉走放在傢裏一直沒有讀。現在終於讀瞭,著實相見恨晚。每一個案例具體形象,行文流暢又有說服力,最後一章讀起來簡直不能更暢快。The east and the west is never really apart, the machine is never an alienation, but a mirror to humanity.If we see a buddha in a machine, because the humanity needs a buddha.
評分藝術史研究中的技術取嚮的另一本著作,建立在海德格爾關於techne的理論之上。關於craftmanship的研究熱持續上升。techno研究中的去東方主義亦是此書的關鍵詞之一。
The Buddha in the Machine 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載