Three Farmers On Their Way To A Dance by Richard Powers
A fragmented novel follows a single nineteenth-century photograph of three young farmers on their way to a dance as it reverberates through subsequent eras, using that frozen image to examine the rise of photography and mechanical reproduction, the industrialization of violence in modern war, and later scientific attempts to decode life itself. Interweaving narrative scenes, historical digressions and scientific reflection, it traces how visual and informational technologies reshape perception, agency and moral responsibility, offering a wide-ranging meditation on the human costs and ethical stakes of modernity.
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- Published
- 1985
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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