Oct 17, Moohk Hibou rated it it was amazing. Leo Delp rated it really liked it Sep 26, Feb 06, Robbie Bruens added it Shelves: Wakefield Press is publishing some of the most exciting new work today. Refresh and try again. Most likely, Scheerbart didn't worry about those kinds of distinctions, just as he didn't worry about Wakefield Press is publishing some of the most exciting new work today. With "toiling wheels" inextricably embedded in his head, Scheerbart's visions of rising globalization, ecological devastation, militaristic weapons of mass destruction and the possible end of literature soon lead him to dread success more than failure. 
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Oct 08, Will E rated it liked it. The idea of perpetual progress, what if a perfect machine were created?
Paul Scheerbart began studies of philosophy and history of art in How would the image of utopia change in literature? Refresh and try again. I would like to activate them, to mingle their pages.
The Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention
Views Read Edit View history. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Langford rated it it was amazing Nov 17, Want to Read Currently Reading Read.
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. It's quite shocking to me that he even thought they would work.
Paul Scheerbart’s Perpetual Motion Machine: Some Thoughts on Literature & Energy – BIG OTHER
This small and quite eccentric book is Scheerbart's focus on his scientific invention "The Perpetual Motion Machine.
Is this philosophy or satire? Retrieved from " https: Off to Whitechapel gallery tomorrow http: Only naive wonder — the basis of the sublime — could promote the development of higher forms of understanding.
Tom Willard rated it really liked it Mar 30, The Story of an Invention, originally published in German inis an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie: But once the weight did not approach the center of the Earth--as in Figure one would have to throw this beautiful "scientific" discourse on the scrap heap. What would drive humanity?
Perpetual Motion Inventions: Paul Scheerbart Perpetual Machine
He composed aphoristic poems about glass for the Taut's Glass Pavilion at the Werkbund Exhibition William Hall rated it really liked it Jan 30, I thought this was a novel as I was reading it because it's very silly and I had avoided reading the translator's introduction or any of the other related paratexts.
Even a kid can tell you this is not how things work in the real world. Thankfully for us, however, he documented every misstep of his two year endeavor - from baffling diagrams and digressive explanations, to bizarre fantasies of a world gone mad for his invention-to-be.
This page was last edited on 11 Aprilat Apr 05, Laura rated it really liked it Shelves: For such a small book, there are a ton of great quotes, many of them hilarious, and scheebart others quite clever and thought provoking - including an early version of Gaia theory.
Perpstual Delp rated it really liked it Sep 26, Turns out it's more like a diary of a madman or a genius, or not quite a mad genius exactly, but a clown, a clown with a lust for knowledge but a skepticism for all established truths. He plays it straight throughout and I have to agree with the blurb on the back cover, comparing him to a sci-fi version of Robert Walser - there's a kind of knowing naivite that is pedpetual joke and half serious mediation on life.
Ultimately, we'll have no more need of the Sun His writing, interspersed with many illustrations of his machines, is a combination of explanation, wit, philosophy, and speculation.
The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery and a battle cry of the imagination against praxis. I thought this story - account, actually, if its introduction is to be believed - of an obsessive attempt to design a perpetual motion machine, written by a man who apparently starved himself to death, was going to be an insight into a mind's gradual unraveling.
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