Disappearing through the skylight : culture and technology in the twentieth century /
This book is about change in modern culture, focussing on values rather than processes or products. It looks at five areas, as a cross-section of modern culture - nature, history, language, art and human evolution - reviewing the ways in which the central concepts of these areas have changed through...
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New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Viking,
1989.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- pt. I: A tree, a streamlined fish, and self-squared dragon; or, the disappearance of nature
- pt. II: Great walls and running fences; or, the disappearance of history
- pt. III: The poetry of nothing; or, the disappearance of language
- pt. IV: Artificial reality; or, the disappearance of art
- pt. V: Deus ex machina: or, the disappearance of man.