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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... economy has turned in ' advanced ' countries , after many recessions and depressions , into an economy of abundance , or , as it might be more cor- rectly styled , of mal - distributed affluence . Because of the staggering poten- tial ...
... economy has turned in ' advanced ' countries , after many recessions and depressions , into an economy of abundance , or , as it might be more cor- rectly styled , of mal - distributed affluence . Because of the staggering poten- tial ...
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... economy of abundance is already in partial operation . But the gain seems on paper to be larger than it actually is ; for this reckoning leaves out the negative abundance that has accompanied this feat : the depleted soils and mineral ...
... economy of abundance is already in partial operation . But the gain seems on paper to be larger than it actually is ; for this reckoning leaves out the negative abundance that has accompanied this feat : the depleted soils and mineral ...
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... economy of abundance than any system concocted on a mathematical model , just because it stores a variety of human experiences for which there is no mathematical or logical coun- terpart . In so far as an organic model implicitly ...
... economy of abundance than any system concocted on a mathematical model , just because it stores a variety of human experiences for which there is no mathematical or logical coun- terpart . In so far as an organic model implicitly ...
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RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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