{"product_id":"why-i-am-not-going-to-buy-a-computer","title":"Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer: Essays by Wendell Berry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\" (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWendell 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 \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Wendell Berry: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In writing about the fate of the natural world, Berry is a prophet of the domestic.\" --Dean Kuipers, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wendell Berry is our National Guardian Angel!\" --Richard Horan, \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Compelling, luminous . . . our modern-day Thoreau. He is unlike anybody else writing today. He writes at least as well as George Orwell and has an urgent message for modern industrial capitalism . . . nobody can risk ignoring him.\" --Andrew Marr, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/collections\/wendell-berry\" title=\"Wendell Berry\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWendell Berry\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46519084220602,"sku":"9781640094574","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_2d32e80c-dc52-486e-8fd5-1d180de8d768.jpg?v=1788272258","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/why-i-am-not-going-to-buy-a-computer","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}