Nine chains to the moon : an adventure story of thought / Richard Buckminster Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983, author.

Contributor:

Krausse, Joachim, Contributor.

Lichtenstein, Claude, Contributor.

Norman Foster, Lord, Contributor.

Series:

Bauwelt Fundamente ; 165.

Bauwelt Fundamente ; 165

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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!

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

Notes:

Originally published: Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1938.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-0356-1776-7

OCLC:

1114828872