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 162
... destruction and conquest that enabled small gangs of resolute men to perform acts of both construction and destruction that had hitherto called for tens of thousands of brawny bodies . Not the least notable thing about Leonardo's mind ...
... destruction and conquest that enabled small gangs of resolute men to perform acts of both construction and destruction that had hitherto called for tens of thousands of brawny bodies . Not the least notable thing about Leonardo's mind ...
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... destruction — or the building up of military capability for this eventual use depends upon a vast transfer of credit to the government ; and the need for both capital and current income to cover national military expenditures gives ...
... destruction — or the building up of military capability for this eventual use depends upon a vast transfer of credit to the government ; and the need for both capital and current income to cover national military expenditures gives ...
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... destruction . This was mass consumption with a vengeance . As a result of war itself , the economic center of gravity shifted to the State , that is , the national megamachine : and between repairing the de- structions of the war itself ...
... destruction . This was mass consumption with a vengeance . As a result of war itself , the economic center of gravity shifted to the State , that is , the national megamachine : and between repairing the de- structions of the war itself ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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