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 293
ELECTRONIC. ENTROPY. But perhaps another fate is actually in store for
mankind if it should continue blindly on its present course: not an arrested
development, with an eventual lapse into unconsciousness, or a transmutation of
all functions ...
ELECTRONIC. ENTROPY. But perhaps another fate is actually in store for
mankind if it should continue blindly on its present course: not an arrested
development, with an eventual lapse into unconsciousness, or a transmutation of
all functions ...
Page 298
McLuhan's ideas about the role of electronic technology have been widely
accepted, I suggest, because they magnify and vulgarize the dominant
components of the power system in the very act of seeming to revolt against its
regimentation.
McLuhan's ideas about the role of electronic technology have been widely
accepted, I suggest, because they magnify and vulgarize the dominant
components of the power system in the very act of seeming to revolt against its
regimentation.
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... 255, 256 Eiseley, Loren, 60, 381 Electricity, Hawthorne's intuitions about, 314
Electronic Age, McLuhan's belated interpretation of, 296 Electronic dissociation,
294 Electronic inventions, Mumford's early interpretation of, 295 Electronic media
, ...
... 255, 256 Eiseley, Loren, 60, 381 Electricity, Hawthorne's intuitions about, 314
Electronic Age, McLuhan's belated interpretation of, 296 Electronic dissociation,
294 Electronic inventions, Mumford's early interpretation of, 295 Electronic media
, ...
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