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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... modern world picture . He was already aware , through his willingness to inspect his own dreams , of the terrible potentialities for destruction and dehumanization that might lie in store for modern man unless his self - knowledge and ...
... modern world picture . He was already aware , through his willingness to inspect his own dreams , of the terrible potentialities for destruction and dehumanization that might lie in store for modern man unless his self - knowledge and ...
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... modern megamachine that did not exist , in fact or in dream , in the original model . What is distinctly modern is the effective materialization of archaic dreams that had hitherto been technologically impracticable . With the coalition ...
... modern megamachine that did not exist , in fact or in dream , in the original model . What is distinctly modern is the effective materialization of archaic dreams that had hitherto been technologically impracticable . With the coalition ...
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... Modern Sculpture : The Effects of Science and Technol- ogy on the Sculpture of This Century . New York : 1968 . Valuable for its data and its descriptive analyses : but points to an extremely dubious ( suicidal ) conclusion : namely ...
... Modern Sculpture : The Effects of Science and Technol- ogy on the Sculpture of This Century . New York : 1968 . Valuable for its data and its descriptive analyses : but points to an extremely dubious ( suicidal ) conclusion : namely ...
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