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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... immense authority that the astronomical and mechanical world picture exerted — and still exerts over many of the most able minds . Unfortunately , just as behind the terrestrial exploration stalked de- monic and criminal impulses that ...
... immense authority that the astronomical and mechanical world picture exerted — and still exerts over many of the most able minds . Unfortunately , just as behind the terrestrial exploration stalked de- monic and criminal impulses that ...
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... immense storage of human experi- ence and skill , only a small part of which has been passed on in the design and fabrication of machines . On this score , Leibnitz's observation still holds : " Concerning unwritten knowledge scattered ...
... immense storage of human experi- ence and skill , only a small part of which has been passed on in the design and fabrication of machines . On this score , Leibnitz's observation still holds : " Concerning unwritten knowledge scattered ...
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... immense , still impending total human sacrifice cannot be ap- praised in the rational or scientific terms that those who have created this system favor : it is , I stress again , an essentially religious phenomenon . As such it offers a ...
... immense , still impending total human sacrifice cannot be ap- praised in the rational or scientific terms that those who have created this system favor : it is , I stress again , an essentially religious phenomenon . As such it offers a ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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