The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... cultures holds equally for man's historic affiliations . Just as no single region or culture can possibly offer fulfillment of all the potentialities for human development , so no single generation can embody these potentialities . And ...
... cultures holds equally for man's historic affiliations . Just as no single region or culture can possibly offer fulfillment of all the potentialities for human development , so no single generation can embody these potentialities . And ...
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... cultural inheritance is partly re - programmed from generation to generation , from culture to culture , and is modified even from hour to hour by the plans and acts of individual minds , genetic control might program man out of ...
... cultural inheritance is partly re - programmed from generation to generation , from culture to culture , and is modified even from hour to hour by the plans and acts of individual minds , genetic control might program man out of ...
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... Cultural dissolution , 295 Cultural forms , 417 Cultural inheritance , programming of , 292 Cultural interchanges , contribution of , to technics , 18 Cultural lag , 223 Cultural prospects , emerging , 404 Cultural reservoir , importance of ...
... Cultural dissolution , 295 Cultural forms , 417 Cultural inheritance , programming of , 292 Cultural interchanges , contribution of , to technics , 18 Cultural lag , 223 Cultural prospects , emerging , 404 Cultural reservoir , importance of ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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