The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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Page 124
... material advances and scientific audacities . Unlike some of his more rigorous successors , Bacon was even ready to admit some cogency in dreams , or some reality in the hypnotic powers of the imagination - elusive and dangerous though ...
... material advances and scientific audacities . Unlike some of his more rigorous successors , Bacon was even ready to admit some cogency in dreams , or some reality in the hypnotic powers of the imagination - elusive and dangerous though ...
Page 175
... material abundance , and remote control . Central to these magic aspirations was , for obvious reasons , material abundance ; this proved indeed to be the tempting immediate bait that concealed the collective trap of external power and ...
... material abundance , and remote control . Central to these magic aspirations was , for obvious reasons , material abundance ; this proved indeed to be the tempting immediate bait that concealed the collective trap of external power and ...
Page 380
... material that needs to be processed by them , to be ennobled by their touch . But life is never a material , a sub- stance to be molded . If you want to know , life is the principle of self- renewal , it is constantly renewing and ...
... material that needs to be processed by them , to be ennobled by their touch . But life is never a material , a sub- stance to be molded . If you want to know , life is the principle of self- renewal , it is constantly renewing and ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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