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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... environment , exploring every wood , field , and riverbank around Concord , he furthered his family business ... environment cut solely to the measure of the machine . This ideology gave primacy to the denatured and dehumanized ...
... environment , exploring every wood , field , and riverbank around Concord , he furthered his family business ... environment cut solely to the measure of the machine . This ideology gave primacy to the denatured and dehumanized ...
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... environment , the infant retains an illusion of omnipotence : for he has only to cry to have his wishes fulfilled . By bawling loudly he gets an immediate response from the environment : a face reassuringly appears , a hand strokes him ...
... environment , the infant retains an illusion of omnipotence : for he has only to cry to have his wishes fulfilled . By bawling loudly he gets an immediate response from the environment : a face reassuringly appears , a hand strokes him ...
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... environment ; and even in that environment he was more aware of the edibility of plants and the activities of birds and animals than he was of purely physical manifestations of nature , except when they occurred violently , as in storms ...
... environment ; and even in that environment he was more aware of the edibility of plants and the activities of birds and animals than he was of purely physical manifestations of nature , except when they occurred violently , as in storms ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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