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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... megamachine exercises more effective con- trol over large populations than any merely political unit can profess . Nietzsche once described war as the " health of the State " ; but more than this , it is the body and soul of the megamachine ...
... megamachine exercises more effective con- trol over large populations than any merely political unit can profess . Nietzsche once described war as the " health of the State " ; but more than this , it is the body and soul of the megamachine ...
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... megamachine leaves open is whether this destruction shall be swift or slow : the negative goal is in- corporated in the basic ideological assumptions that govern the system . The artists of the present generation , who have exposed this ...
... megamachine leaves open is whether this destruction shall be swift or slow : the negative goal is in- corporated in the basic ideological assumptions that govern the system . The artists of the present generation , who have exposed this ...
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... megamachine . Paradoxically , then , the greatest gains that have been achieved through command of nuclear reaction have been purely spiritual ones : an enriched conception of cosmic realities : a deeper insight into the nature of the ...
... megamachine . Paradoxically , then , the greatest gains that have been achieved through command of nuclear reaction have been purely spiritual ones : an enriched conception of cosmic realities : a deeper insight into the nature of the ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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