The Myth of the Machine, Volume 2Shows that man himself has from the beginning been and still is the central fact of human life today. |
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... labor - saving but labor - loving , a deliberate elaboration of function , form , and symbolic ornament to enhance the interest of life itself . This ancient reciprocity between folk work and folk art reached its apogee in music between ...
... labor - saving but labor - loving , a deliberate elaboration of function , form , and symbolic ornament to enhance the interest of life itself . This ancient reciprocity between folk work and folk art reached its apogee in music between ...
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... labor force to go into the standing army , the new municipal police , and the civil services . Never before probably was human service so abundant and so cheap in the Western World as it was during the nineteenth century , indeed right ...
... labor force to go into the standing army , the new municipal police , and the civil services . Never before probably was human service so abundant and so cheap in the Western World as it was during the nineteenth century , indeed right ...
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... labor no less than from the upper class freedom to avoid labor . That new possibility was outlined more than a century ago by that singular if mad genius Charles Fourier . This is what Fourier called the ' butterfly principle ...
... labor no less than from the upper class freedom to avoid labor . That new possibility was outlined more than a century ago by that singular if mad genius Charles Fourier . This is what Fourier called the ' butterfly principle ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
Copyright | |
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abstract accepted achieved activities actually already ancient authority automatic automation became become beginning brought century civilization collective communication complex continued culture demands Descartes destruction direct economy effect effort energy environment equally established existence experience exploration fact final forces functions further future give human idea improvements increase industrial institutions intelligence invention knowledge later least less limited living machine man's mass material means mechanical megamachine megatechnics merely method military mind mode moral nature necessary never objective observed once operation organic original past perhaps physical possible power system practical present production progress proved reality remained result scientific scientists seemed sense single social society space subjective success sufficient symbolic taken technical thought tion turn ultimate United universal whole world picture York