دورية أكاديمية
Tools of Transformation: Appropriate Technology in U.S. Countercultural Literature
| العنوان: | Tools of Transformation: Appropriate Technology in U.S. Countercultural Literature |
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| المؤلفون: | Peter Mortensen |
| المصدر: | American Studies in Scandinavia, Vol 44, Iss 2 (2012) |
| بيانات النشر: | CBS Open Journals, 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:America LCC:American literature |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | America, E11-143, American literature, PS1-3576 |
| الوصف: | This essay takes its cue from second-wave ecocriticism and from recent scholarly interest in the “appropriate technology” movement that evolved during the 1960s and 1970s in California and elsewhere. “Appropriate technology” (or AT) refers to a loosely-knit group of writers, engineers and designers active in the years around 1970, and more generally to the counterculture’s promotion, development and application of technologies that were small-scale, low-cost, user-friendly, human-empowering and environmentally sound. Focusing on two roughly contemporary but now largely forgotten American texts Sidney Goldfarb’s lyric poem “Solar-Heated-Rhombic-Dodecahedron” (1969) and Gurney Norman’s novel Divine Right’s Trip (1971)—I consider how “hip” literary writers contributed to eco-technological discourse and argue for the 1960s counterculture’s relevance to present-day ecological concerns. Goldfarb’s and Norman’s texts interest me because they conceptualize iconic 1960s technologies—especially the Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic dome and the Volkswagen van—not as inherently alienating machines but as tools of profound individual, social and environmental transformation. Synthesizing antimodernist back-to-nature desires with modernist enthusiasm for (certain kinds of) machinery, these texts adumbrate a humanity- and modernity-centered post-wilderness model of environmentalism that resonates with the dilemmas that we face in our increasingly resource-impoverished, rapidly warming and densely populated world. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0044-8060 |
| Relation: | https://192.168.7.25:443/index.php/assc/article/view/4917; https://doaj.org/toc/0044-8060 |
| DOI: | 10.22439/asca.v44i2.4917 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/55672b7c7ee94dc386949a049a6160db |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.55672b7c7ee94dc386949a049a6160db |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 00448060 |
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| DOI: | 10.22439/asca.v44i2.4917 |