Charkha: Focal Thing, Appropriate Technology, and the Wheel of Self-Reliance.
The Charkha, or the spinning wheel, a symbol of self-sufficiency and freedom, implicitly promoted the idea of togetherness, as it makes people sit and spin yarn together while they share joy and agony. This paper highlights the charkha as an epicenter, where it assimilates all the attributes and val...
| Publicado en: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 310 - 338 |
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2024
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