The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... megamachine exercises more effective con- trol over large populations than any merely political unit can profess . Nietzsche once described war as the " health of the State " ; but more than this , it is the body and soul of the megamachine ...
... megamachine exercises more effective con- trol over large populations than any merely political unit can profess . Nietzsche once described war as the " health of the State " ; but more than this , it is the body and soul of the megamachine ...
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... megamachine with a valuable supplement to physical coercion and military discipline . Curiously , the first attempt to modernize the oppressive megamachine came about in Russia through the Bolshevik revolution . But despite the fact ...
... megamachine with a valuable supplement to physical coercion and military discipline . Curiously , the first attempt to modernize the oppressive megamachine came about in Russia through the Bolshevik revolution . But despite the fact ...
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Lewis Mumford. 1 megamachine : THE SECRETS OF THE TEMPLE atom 16 267 And though like every other machine , the contemporary megamachine is an agent for performing work , the work that has occupied the huge scien- tific and technical ...
Lewis Mumford. 1 megamachine : THE SECRETS OF THE TEMPLE atom 16 267 And though like every other machine , the contemporary megamachine is an agent for performing work , the work that has occupied the huge scien- tific and technical ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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