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... ideology went a corresponding regimentation and degradation of once - autonomous human activities : ' mass culture ' and ' mass control ' made their first appearance . With mordant symbolism , the ultimate products of the megamachine in ...
... ideology went a corresponding regimentation and degradation of once - autonomous human activities : ' mass culture ' and ' mass control ' made their first appearance . With mordant symbolism , the ultimate products of the megamachine in ...
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... ideology and a myth which perhaps had their faint begin- nings in the magical ceremonies in paleolithic caves . At the center of this whole development lay the new institution of kingship . The myth of the machine and the cult of divine ...
... ideology and a myth which perhaps had their faint begin- nings in the magical ceremonies in paleolithic caves . At the center of this whole development lay the new institution of kingship . The myth of the machine and the cult of divine ...
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Lewis Mumford. This combination of traits was in due course transmitted to the scientific ideology of the seventeenth century : a readiness to entertain daring hy- potheses , a willingness to dismember organic complexities , while ...
Lewis Mumford. This combination of traits was in due course transmitted to the scientific ideology of the seventeenth century : a readiness to entertain daring hy- potheses , a willingness to dismember organic complexities , while ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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