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LOGOS AND TECHNOLOGY. BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND THE PROBLEM OF TWO CULTURES
Bartłomiej Knosala1
UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 12 May 2016
Keywords: Richard Buckminster Fuller, Logos, Two Cultures, Crisis of Humanities, epistemography
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to present the thought and activity of Buckminster Fuller in the context of the classic paradigm. According to this paradigm the aim of human activity is to reconcile individual Logos with general Logos. Fuller is using this paradigm to analyse the challenges of technological civilization. Fuller in his writings not only is expressing the conviction that human endeavors must be directed to discover the „nature coordinating system” in all its aspects: social, economic and technological, but is also trying to restore such understanding of language in which cognitional aspects are not divided from language. That assumption allows us to see architectonical objects and technological objects as a form of discourse, which aim to create a new relation between individual and cosmic consciousness. In the social dimension Fuller was postulating the promotion of forms of mentality, which would go beyond the division of two cultures.
Politechnika Śląska, Wydział Organizacji i Zarządzania
E-mail: bartlomiej.knosala@polsl.pl