The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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Page 166
... power complex , comparable to that which produced the colossal constructive transformations of the Pyramid Age in both Egypt and Mesopotamia . What I have hitherto designated with intentional looseness as the myth of the machine I now ...
... power complex , comparable to that which produced the colossal constructive transformations of the Pyramid Age in both Egypt and Mesopotamia . What I have hitherto designated with intentional looseness as the myth of the machine I now ...
Page 167
... power complex originally had their place and performed their indispen- sable functions . What the power complex did was to wrench these separate components from their organic matrix and enclose them in an isolated sub- system centered ...
... power complex originally had their place and performed their indispen- sable functions . What the power complex did was to wrench these separate components from their organic matrix and enclose them in an isolated sub- system centered ...
Page 168
... power complex increasingly underlies all these institutional structures ; and as it knits more closely together , seizing more power and governing wider areas , it tends to suppress original cultural differences that once , under ...
... power complex increasingly underlies all these institutional structures ; and as it knits more closely together , seizing more power and governing wider areas , it tends to suppress original cultural differences that once , under ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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