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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... effect was to break down the theological assump- tion that God had made the earth the center of the universe and that man was the ultimate object of his attention . If the sun was actually the center , then the whole structure of ...
... effect was to break down the theological assump- tion that God had made the earth the center of the universe and that man was the ultimate object of his attention . If the sun was actually the center , then the whole structure of ...
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... effect of the terrestrial exploration in offsetting the con- straints of technical invention and organization was only temporary , it actually laid the foundations for a new world order : one which would alter the original mechanical ...
... effect of the terrestrial exploration in offsetting the con- straints of technical invention and organization was only temporary , it actually laid the foundations for a new world order : one which would alter the original mechanical ...
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... effects of , 342 ; deteri- oration under , 340 ; human , 339 ; present manifestations of , 344 ; threat of , 338 ... effect of parasitism upon , 341 ; new incarnation of , 423 ; sterilization of , 286 Personality cult , youth's ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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