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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... actually been ground down by poverty , its workers might have spent the time given over to communal celebrations and church - building on multiplying the yards of textiles woven or the pairs of shoes cobbled . Certainly an economy that ...
... actually been ground down by poverty , its workers might have spent the time given over to communal celebrations and church - building on multiplying the yards of textiles woven or the pairs of shoes cobbled . Certainly an economy that ...
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... actually is ; for this reckoning leaves out the negative abundance that has accompanied this feat : the depleted soils and mineral supplies , the polluted air and water , the rusting auto graveyards , the mountains of waste paper and ...
... actually is ; for this reckoning leaves out the negative abundance that has accompanied this feat : the depleted soils and mineral supplies , the polluted air and water , the rusting auto graveyards , the mountains of waste paper and ...
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... actually to be taking place . The unwillingness of millions of cigarette smokers to free themselves from their addiction to cigarettes despite the incontestable evidence of the probable consequences in lung cancer , gives a hint of the ...
... actually to be taking place . The unwillingness of millions of cigarette smokers to free themselves from their addiction to cigarettes despite the incontestable evidence of the probable consequences in lung cancer , gives a hint of the ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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