The Pentagon of Power, Volume 2In 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 330
This means that one must not demand any other kind of life than that which can
be lived, as directed, within the current fashionable frame. To have a life that is in
any way detached from the megatechnic complex, to say nothing of being cockily
...
This means that one must not demand any other kind of life than that which can
be lived, as directed, within the current fashionable frame. To have a life that is in
any way detached from the megatechnic complex, to say nothing of being cockily
...
Page 348
Astronauts, we have seen, submit to the severest bodily ordeals in order to satisfy
the ritual demands for space travel to distant parts of the solar system. To a
certain degree, vicarious participation in these rites by the earthbound
inhabitants of ...
Astronauts, we have seen, submit to the severest bodily ordeals in order to satisfy
the ritual demands for space travel to distant parts of the solar system. To a
certain degree, vicarious participation in these rites by the earthbound
inhabitants of ...
Page 398
between external proposals and internal responses, between activity and
recuperation: yet always with the need for a surplus sufficient to make good
depletions, to meet unexpected demands, and to permit the exercise of choice.
To preserve ...
between external proposals and internal responses, between activity and
recuperation: yet always with the need for a surplus sufficient to make good
depletions, to meet unexpected demands, and to permit the exercise of choice.
To preserve ...
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