The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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Page 355
... contemporary society - a society now debilitated by its lack of engrossing manual work , and its increasing resistance to active work of any kind . Part of Morris ' life was transfigured in his idyllic utopia , ' News from Nowhere ...
... contemporary society - a society now debilitated by its lack of engrossing manual work , and its increasing resistance to active work of any kind . Part of Morris ' life was transfigured in his idyllic utopia , ' News from Nowhere ...
Page 364
... contemporary samples : mere reminders of a much huger mass of purposeful irrationality , paranoid inflation , cultivated idiocy , and mindless destruction . The order in which the evidence is presented is as random as the events ...
... contemporary samples : mere reminders of a much huger mass of purposeful irrationality , paranoid inflation , cultivated idiocy , and mindless destruction . The order in which the evidence is presented is as random as the events ...
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... contemporary evasion of , 417 ; space flight from , 303-306 Rebellions , justification of contemporary , 377 ' Recessional , ' 432 Record , permanent , 294 Records , centralized , 275 Reductionism , 87 , 418 ; scientific , 69 , 87 , 93 ...
... contemporary evasion of , 417 ; space flight from , 303-306 Rebellions , justification of contemporary , 377 ' Recessional , ' 432 Record , permanent , 294 Records , centralized , 275 Reductionism , 87 , 418 ; scientific , 69 , 87 , 93 ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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