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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... functions are converted into abstract , uniform units , ultimately units of energy or money , there are no limits to the amount of power that can be seized , converted , and stored . The peculiarity of money is that it knows no ...
... functions are converted into abstract , uniform units , ultimately units of energy or money , there are no limits to the amount of power that can be seized , converted , and stored . The peculiarity of money is that it knows no ...
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... functions . For one thing , the principle of homeo- stasis deals mainly with self - maintenance , and all the work processes dependent upon it ; but it does not incorporate the demands of bodily growth , which often temporarily upset ...
... functions . For one thing , the principle of homeo- stasis deals mainly with self - maintenance , and all the work processes dependent upon it ; but it does not incorporate the demands of bodily growth , which often temporarily upset ...
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... functions enabled him to escape the automatism of his reflexes and hormones . How under those conditions to prevent the brain from succumbing to its own disorderly hyperactivity , once liberated from the bodily functions and ...
... functions enabled him to escape the automatism of his reflexes and hormones . How under those conditions to prevent the brain from succumbing to its own disorderly hyperactivity , once liberated from the bodily functions and ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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