Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction: An Imaginary Symposium; Archaeology of a Vision; Yankee Ingenuity; American Dreamers; The Original Vision; The Way Things Are; Geoscope; Synergy & Entropy; Refractions; Dwelling Machine; Ambivalent Centennial; Reflections; Anima Mundi; Mandala; Deep South; Due East; True North; Way Out West; Connections - Real & Unreal; A Lower Deep; Appendix A: Unfolding wholes: A Synergetics Primer; Appendix B: The Root DH R* and Its Branches; Appendix C: Palimpsest; Notes; Index.

About the Author

Dr Scott Eastham is currently Senior Lecturer of Media Studies at Massey University, New Zealand, and teaches from a humanistic point of view. He always attempts to come at issues of meaning and value from a cross-cultural angle. Dr Eastham represents the interdisciplinary approach of Media Studies and takes a particular interest in the interaction between technology and human values.

Reviews

Scott has done an outstanding job of putting "Bucky in context" and putting him in the historic place he deserves: one which urges greater attention to his place in the history of ideas as well as the relevance of his entire opus to urgent issues of today. Bill Perk