Author : R. John Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0300194471
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.