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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... mode of exploration was concerned with abstract symbols , rational systems , universal laws , repeatable and predictable events , objective mathematical measurements : it sought to understand , utilize , and control the forces that ...
... mode of exploration was concerned with abstract symbols , rational systems , universal laws , repeatable and predictable events , objective mathematical measurements : it sought to understand , utilize , and control the forces that ...
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... mode of government would be the equivalent of ' alumni control ' in a university ; and one can hardly imagine a better means of inducing administrative arthritis , if any institution were ever so ill - advised as to install it . But so ...
... mode of government would be the equivalent of ' alumni control ' in a university ; and one can hardly imagine a better means of inducing administrative arthritis , if any institution were ever so ill - advised as to install it . But so ...
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... mode of life . Only by fierce exertions and by running the risk of being slain did these rulers and their warriors conquer and exploit the far more numerous peasant populations . Even after the successful monarchs had achieved ...
... mode of life . Only by fierce exertions and by running the risk of being slain did these rulers and their warriors conquer and exploit the far more numerous peasant populations . Even after the successful monarchs had achieved ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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