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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... already been assembled in dream . What Francis Bacon did in " The New Atlantis ' was to suggest for the first time the kind of organization that would make it possible for these dreams to come true ; not merely to fulfill them , but to ...
... already been assembled in dream . What Francis Bacon did in " The New Atlantis ' was to suggest for the first time the kind of organization that would make it possible for these dreams to come true ; not merely to fulfill them , but to ...
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... already unfolding . In his Introduction to Darwin's ' Origin of Species , ' George Gaylord Simpson points to this ap- proaching transformation . " The astronomical and physical revolutions were already well advanced in the early ...
... already unfolding . In his Introduction to Darwin's ' Origin of Species , ' George Gaylord Simpson points to this ap- proaching transformation . " The astronomical and physical revolutions were already well advanced in the early ...
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... already been put forward . To describe even in the barest outline the multitude of changes necessary to turn the power complex into an organic complex , and a money economy into a life economy , lies beyond the capacities of any ...
... already been put forward . To describe even in the barest outline the multitude of changes necessary to turn the power complex into an organic complex , and a money economy into a life economy , lies beyond the capacities of any ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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