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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... forces that were at work , and pool their collective intelligence in an effort to devise the institutional changes necessary to turn these immense forces to human advantage , since , if uncontrolled , “ bombs of cosmic violence " might ...
... forces that were at work , and pool their collective intelligence in an effort to devise the institutional changes necessary to turn these immense forces to human advantage , since , if uncontrolled , “ bombs of cosmic violence " might ...
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... forces of nature , and attain control of cosmic forces on a cosmic scale , the conse- quences may be as surprising as the change of water to vapor , of the worm to the butterfly , of radium to electrons . " That prediction has , even at ...
... forces of nature , and attain control of cosmic forces on a cosmic scale , the conse- quences may be as surprising as the change of water to vapor , of the worm to the butterfly , of radium to electrons . " That prediction has , even at ...
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... forces over which he exercises no effective control , moving to a destination he has not chosen . Unlike the taboo- ridden savage , who is often childishly over - confident in the powers of his shaman or magician to control formidable ...
... forces over which he exercises no effective control , moving to a destination he has not chosen . Unlike the taboo- ridden savage , who is often childishly over - confident in the powers of his shaman or magician to control formidable ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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