Nine Chains to the Moon : : An Adventure Story of Thought / / Richard Buckminster Fuller.
Die Neuauflage von Buckminster Fullers Erstlingswerk, für dessen Publikation 1938 Albert Einstein sich stark machte. In 43 Kapiteln entfaltet der Konstrukteur, Visionär, Erfinder, Designer, Sprachschöpfer und spektakuläre Performer die Kunst, auf eigene Faust zu denken. Fuller spannt einen gewaltige...
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Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to this New Edition of Nine Chains to the Moon
- An Outline
- 1. Meet Mr. Murphy
- 2. Stomach Rhythms Not All Rhumbas
- 3. ’S a House, Darling
- 4. The Phantom Captain
- 5. What Is a House?
- 6. Teleology
- 7. We Call It “Earth”
- 8. “E = Mc2” = Mrs. Murphy’s Horse Power
- 9. Dollarability
- 10. Primary Motivations of Man: Fear and Longing
- 11. Genius and Talent
- 12. Patrons of Art: Death and Life
- 13. Span-Spinning from Abstract Thought to Physical Science
- 14. Dogmatic Toll Takers: Detour via the North West Spiral: Triangles and Squares
- 15. The 2000-Year Streamlining of Society
- 16. The Zero Hour
- 17. Baby Industry Is Kidnapped
- 18. Longing Crosses the Sea
- 19. Machinery Follows Longing and Carves a Trend Pattern
- 20. The Warehouse Era
- 21. Not in Vain Did They Die
- 22. Enter Alloy: Exit Rust
- 23. Ford Consolidates the Scientific Emergence
- 24. Accounting Subterfuges of Capital’s Bankruptcy
- 25. Indirect Effect of the War: Death of the Warehouse-Commerce City
- 26. Emergence Through Emergency
- 27. Trick Balance Sheet
- 28. Ecoballistics: Booms Boomerang
- 29. Speculation: Introducing the Mechanical Stock Exchange
- 30. 24 Hour Year Round, World Wide Referendum Service: True Credit Amplification
- 31. The Scientific Segregation of Scarcity and Plenitude
- 32. Universal Language
- 33. Ephemeralization
- 34. Science and Industry “Take Off” as the Boys “Get Down” to Business
- 35. Flimsy Fabric of the Abstract Monopolies
- 36. Throwing in the Patented Sponge
- 37. Scrap – Coup d’Etat of the Random Element
- 38. Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe
- 39. Scientific Dwelling Service
- 40. The Nine “Chains”
- 41. Jones and the X-ian
- 42. Resolved to Resolve
- 43. Anthem
- Photo Gallery
- Claude Lichtenstein: Panopticon for the 21st Century
- Joachim Krausse: Fuller’s Oikos