The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... modern world picture . He was already aware , through his willingness to inspect his own dreams , of the terrible potentialities for destruction and dehumanization that might lie in store for modern man unless his self - knowledge and ...
... modern world picture . He was already aware , through his willingness to inspect his own dreams , of the terrible potentialities for destruction and dehumanization that might lie in store for modern man unless his self - knowledge and ...
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... modern megamachine that did not exist , in fact or in dream , in the original model . What is distinctly modern is the effective materialization of archaic dreams that had hitherto been technologically impracticable . With the coalition ...
... modern megamachine that did not exist , in fact or in dream , in the original model . What is distinctly modern is the effective materialization of archaic dreams that had hitherto been technologically impracticable . With the coalition ...
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... Modern Sculpture : The Effects of Science and Technol- ogy on the Sculpture of This Century . New York : 1968 . Valuable for its data and its descriptive analyses : but points to an extremely dubious ( suicidal ) conclusion : namely ...
... Modern Sculpture : The Effects of Science and Technol- ogy on the Sculpture of This Century . New York : 1968 . Valuable for its data and its descriptive analyses : but points to an extremely dubious ( suicidal ) conclusion : namely ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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