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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... mass production of scientific knowl- edge went hand in hand with the mass production of inventions and prod- ucts derived from science . Thus the scientist came to have a new status in society , equivalent to that occupied earlier by ...
... mass production of scientific knowl- edge went hand in hand with the mass production of inventions and prod- ucts derived from science . Thus the scientist came to have a new status in society , equivalent to that occupied earlier by ...
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... mass society ( democratic participa- tion ) to a far larger population . To discuss the proliferation of inventions during the last two centuries , the mass production of commodities , and the spread of all the technologi- cal factors ...
... mass society ( democratic participa- tion ) to a far larger population . To discuss the proliferation of inventions during the last two centuries , the mass production of commodities , and the spread of all the technologi- cal factors ...
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... mass production made possible was to achieve sufficient stability to continue its expansion . This change of outlook ... mass market for mass production , in such a complex machine as even the cheap Model T Ford , it was necessary to ...
... mass production made possible was to achieve sufficient stability to continue its expansion . This change of outlook ... mass market for mass production , in such a complex machine as even the cheap Model T Ford , it was necessary to ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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