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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... merely was arbitrary political power , as exercised under kingship and feudal authority , curbed by representative government , but in New England at least there was a healthy development of communal autonomy , alike in the congregation ...
... merely was arbitrary political power , as exercised under kingship and feudal authority , curbed by representative government , but in New England at least there was a healthy development of communal autonomy , alike in the congregation ...
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... merely to remove the student from reciprocal human contacts , but likewise to isolate him from inter- course with any part of the real world except that which has been pro- grammed for him by a higher authority , so that he will be more ...
... merely to remove the student from reciprocal human contacts , but likewise to isolate him from inter- course with any part of the real world except that which has been pro- grammed for him by a higher authority , so that he will be more ...
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... merely drastic restrictions ; it will demand economic and social changes directed toward producing goods and ser ... Mere power and mere IF THE SLEEPERS AWAKEN 413.
... merely drastic restrictions ; it will demand economic and social changes directed toward producing goods and ser ... Mere power and mere IF THE SLEEPERS AWAKEN 413.
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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