Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
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TextPublication details: Zurich Lars Müller Publishers 2008Description: 448: ill. 11.94 x 3.56 x 19.05 cmISBN: - 9783037786222
- DSGN FUL
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Arthshila Ahmedabad Cluster: 3E | DSGN/FUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BK00227 |
Composed of lectures given by Buckminster Fuller throughout the world in the 1960s, Utopia or Oblivion presents the thesis that humanity, for the first time in its history, has the opportunity to create a world where the needs of 100% of humanity are met. Fuller's grandson, in the introduction, refers to this selection as hardcore Bucky, as these essays display Fuller's investigations into mathematics, geometry and how they intersect with the arts, music and world peace. In Fuller's words, This is what man tends to call utopia. It's a fairly small word, but inadequate to describe the extraordinary new freedom of man in a new relationship to universe--the alternative of which is oblivion.
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