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Why I am not going to buy a computer : essays / Wendell Berry.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Counterpoints ; 6Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021Description: 71 pages ; 16 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781640094574
  • 1640094571
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
  • Harper's magazine.
Related works:
  • Container of (work): Berry, Wendell, 1934- Why I am not going to buy a computer (Harper's magazine)
  • Container of (work): Berry, Wendell, 1934- Feminism, the body, and the machine
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Contents:
Why I am not going to buy a computer -- Feminism, the body, and the machine.
Summary: "First published in Harper's magazine in the late 1980s, Wendell Berry's "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer" challenges the idea circulating then (and now) that our advanced technological age is a good thing. The volume of reader response to his essay far exceeded any the magazine had seen before. Berry answered his critics with the longer essay "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine" which is included here in this slim volume"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 004.01 B534 Available 33111010468359
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

First published in Harper's magazine in the late 1980s, Wendell Berry's 'Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer' challenges the idea circulating then (and now) that our advanced technological age is a good thing. The volume of reader response to his essay far exceeded any the magazine had seen before. Berry answered his critics with the longer essay 'Feminism, the Body, and the Machine,' which is also included here in this slim volume.

Why I am not going to buy a computer -- Feminism, the body, and the machine.

"First published in Harper's magazine in the late 1980s, Wendell Berry's "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer" challenges the idea circulating then (and now) that our advanced technological age is a good thing. The volume of reader response to his essay far exceeded any the magazine had seen before. Berry answered his critics with the longer essay "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine" which is included here in this slim volume"-- Provided by publisher.

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