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Zen, Motorcycles, And The Cult of Tech: How Robert Pirsig’s Classic Anticipated the Future

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Robert Pirsig's 1974 oddball classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance reflects the malaise of its era and prefigures our own technophiliac age.

Nathaniel Rich
Nathaniel Rich
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Nathaniel Rich

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