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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Page 172
... automatic unit itself and the auto- matic system , which may contain many different components , not all of them mechanized , or even , until they enter the system , automatic . The automatic machine and the automatic system tend to re ...
... automatic unit itself and the auto- matic system , which may contain many different components , not all of them mechanized , or even , until they enter the system , automatic . The automatic machine and the automatic system tend to re ...
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... automatic source of power , was provided at an early stage for coarser uses by the watermill : the automatic mine - pumping apparatus shown by Agricola in ' De Re Metallica , ' and the equally automatic silk- reeling machine with ...
... automatic source of power , was provided at an early stage for coarser uses by the watermill : the automatic mine - pumping apparatus shown by Agricola in ' De Re Metallica , ' and the equally automatic silk- reeling machine with ...
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... Automatic fixations , earlier forms of , 185 Automatic loom , 178 Automatic machine , Comenius ' praise of , 103 ; characterization of , by Marx , 171 Automatic progress , 225 Automatic systems , insulation of , 184 ; primitive nature ...
... Automatic fixations , earlier forms of , 185 Automatic loom , 178 Automatic machine , Comenius ' praise of , 103 ; characterization of , by Marx , 171 Automatic progress , 225 Automatic systems , insulation of , 184 ; primitive nature ...
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RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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