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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
  • Published: 9 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9781640094581
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

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26 Feb 2018
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9 Feb 2021
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26 Feb 2018
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Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living" (Chicago Tribune)

"A number of people, by now, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a computer. My answer is that I am not going to do it. I have several reasons, and they are good ones."

Wendell Berry first challenged the idea that our advanced technological age is a good thing when he penned "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer" in the late 1980s for Harper's Magazine, galvanizing a critical reaction eclipsing any the magazine had seen before. He followed by responding with "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine." Both essays are collected in one short volume for the first time.
  • Published: 9 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9781640094581
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80
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About the author

Wendell Berry

'A farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,' Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, and also the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and the National Humanities Medal. For more than forty years, he has lived and farmed in his native Henry Country, Kentucky, with his wife, Tanya, and their children and grandchildren.
WB

Also by Wendell Berry

Dispatches from Rural America
The Unsettling of America (50th Anniversary Edition)
Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story
Another Day
How it Went
What I Stand for Is What I Stand On
Think Little
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