The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... organic response , disintegration and wanton destruction gain , as now , the upper hand . Unfortunately Darwinism , in the form popularized by Thomas Henry Huxley , the Saint Paul of Darwinism , with his picture of " Nature red in tooth ...
... organic response , disintegration and wanton destruction gain , as now , the upper hand . Unfortunately Darwinism , in the form popularized by Thomas Henry Huxley , the Saint Paul of Darwinism , with his picture of " Nature red in tooth ...
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... organic concepts to exploiting and controlling living species . All thinking worthy of the name now must be ecological , in the sense of appreciating and utilizing organic complexity , and in adapting every kind of change to the ...
... organic concepts to exploiting and controlling living species . All thinking worthy of the name now must be ecological , in the sense of appreciating and utilizing organic complexity , and in adapting every kind of change to the ...
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... Organic activities , nature of , 202 Organic art , Gabo's and Moore's , [ 32 ] Organic behavior , Darwin's insight into , 388 ; mechanical simplification of , 95 Organic complex , 433 Organic complexes , 395 Organic complexity , 80 ...
... Organic activities , nature of , 202 Organic art , Gabo's and Moore's , [ 32 ] Organic behavior , Darwin's insight into , 388 ; mechanical simplification of , 95 Organic complex , 433 Organic complexes , 395 Organic complexity , 80 ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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