The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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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 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 ...
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... Labor , regimentation of , 321 Labor - saving , boon of , 42 Labor unions , 322 Lamarck , Jean Baptiste , 386 , 387 Lamarckian explanation , Darwin's , 389 ' Lamps , ' Baconian , 113 Language , man's uniqueness in using , 86 ; organic ...
... Labor , regimentation of , 321 Labor - saving , boon of , 42 Labor unions , 322 Lamarck , Jean Baptiste , 386 , 387 Lamarckian explanation , Darwin's , 389 ' Lamps , ' Baconian , 113 Language , man's uniqueness in using , 86 ; organic ...
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THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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