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Bauwelt Fundamente ; 165

Summary note

• 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 gewaltigen Horizont auf, Nine Chains to the Moon kommt einer Navigation quer durch unsere Lebenswelt gleich: "What Is a House?", "Death and Life", "Longing Crosses the Sea", "Dollarability", "We Call it Earth", "Stomach Rhythms", "Ephemeralization" - vom Mikroskopischen zum Automobil, zum Haus, zur Urbanität, zum Bild des Kosmos in ständiger Bewegung. Der Titel, sagt Fuller, stimuliere aufgeschlossenes Denken: Die Weltbevölkerung, einer auf den Schultern des anderen stehend, reicht 1938 neunmal von der Erde zum Mond!
• New edition of Buckminster Fuller's first work published in 1938, which was promoted by Albert Einstein. In 43 chapters the constructor, visionary, inventor, designer, creator of language, and spectacular performer rolls out the art of independent thought. Fuller lays out an enormous horizon and Nine Chains to the Moon is equivalent to a navigation across the world we live in: "What Is a House?", "Death and Life", "Longing Crosses the Sea",　"Dollarability",　"We Call it Earth",　"Stomach Rhythms", "Ephemeralization"-from the microscopic to the automobile, to the house, to urbanity, to the image of the cosmos in constant movement. The title, said Fuller, is meant to stimulate open thinking: the 1938 world population, one person on the shoulders of another, will reach from the earth to the moon nine times!

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword To This New Edition Of Nine Chains To The Moon / Norman Foster, Lord
• 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 / Lichtenstein, Claude
• Joachim Krausse: Fuller's Oikos / Krausse, Joachim

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ISBN

9783035617764

Doi

• 10.1515/9783035617764

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