The Buddha in the Machine
Author | : R. John Williams |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2014-06-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780300194470 |
ISBN-13 | : 0300194471 |
Rating | : 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Buddha in the Machine written by R. John Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 philosophical error - and that Asian art offers a way out of that awful matrix. That desire, this book attempts to demonstrate, has informed Anglo- and even Asian-American debates about technology and art since the late nineteenth century and continues to skew our responses to our own technocultural environment.