To the question of what technology
or labour-saving devices to allow into ones life, serious thought is
essential : any new machine will cause some amount of skill or freedom to
be lost.
Machines are advertised to save precious
time ; are we not left worrying about wasted time and rushing to gain more
? What should we do with saved time ? Could it be that at least some of the
time spent completing slow tasks is precious in itself ? As we unlearn to
do by hand or with simple hand tools, should we not worry of our mounting
dependency to the machines that do it for us ? Does life goes on when there
is a power cut ?
This collection of written and visual
pieces presents nine answers to the question of machines ; with a cooking
recipe at the end.
CONTENTS
PETER CARROLL Signal staff; REMCO DE FOUW Insomniac dreams; KEVIN DONAGHY
Hand-woven; RICHARD DOUTHWAITE Where should we have stopped ?; JUDITH HOAD
The machinery of language; ROS KAVANAGH Human machines; LAURA MAYS The problem
of craft; JÜRGEN SIMPSON New technology/music/methods; DOMINIC STEVENS
Drawing by hand; selected furthering; recipe : toast.
menu | books|books|books | artists|poets|writers|people | point|of|contact |
à la carte | about | jumping|out|of|the|tin | purchase|point |
title |
what machines ? machines can do virtually anything but the qestion is not what they can do but what they ought to do ERIC GILL |
editor | mari-aymone djeribi |
collection | element. (number 7) |
format | royal 8vo, 235x156 mm |
extent | 96pp |
illustrations | line|drawings b+w photographs |
binding | sewn|paperback |
print|process | offset out|of|house |
edition | n|a |
isbn | 1-901776-55-7 |
price | €8.50 stg£6 |