The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... Pentagon strate- gists who were sure they could terrorize the Vietnamese into surrender , or paralyze their military effectiveness by destroying their means of pro- duction . If , as many anthropologists still hold , the making and ...
... Pentagon strate- gists who were sure they could terrorize the Vietnamese into surrender , or paralyze their military effectiveness by destroying their means of pro- duction . If , as many anthropologists still hold , the making and ...
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... Pentagon of Power . The basic ingredient was power itself , beginning in the Pyramid Age with such an assemblage of manpower as no earlier group had been capable of bringing into existence . Over the ages , this has been augmented by ...
... Pentagon of Power . The basic ingredient was power itself , beginning in the Pyramid Age with such an assemblage of manpower as no earlier group had been capable of bringing into existence . Over the ages , this has been augmented by ...
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... pentagon of power . In a hundred different places , the marks of such de - materialization and etherialization are already visible : many more than I have felt it necessary to cite . If I dare to foresee a promising future other than ...
... pentagon of power . In a hundred different places , the marks of such de - materialization and etherialization are already visible : many more than I have felt it necessary to cite . If I dare to foresee a promising future other than ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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